A slight refinement of such a "purloin'' verb is already defined in the library (if the constant DEBUG is defined), so there's no need. But here's how it could be done:
[ Anything i;
if (scope_stage==1) rfalse;
if (scope_stage==2)
{ objectloop (i ofclass Object) PlaceInScope(i); rtrue; }
"No such in game.";
];
(This disallows multiple matches for efficiency reasons -- the parser has
enough work to do with such a huge scope definition as it is.) Now
the token scope=Anything will match anything at all, even things like
the abstract concept of 'east'.