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< p class = "purpose" > Inter-level support for the fundamentals of the Inform language. This is version 1.< / p >
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< p > < a href = "S-dfn.html" > < spon class = "sectiontitle" > Definitions Template< / span > < / a > -
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< span class = "purpose" > Miscellaneous constant definitions, usually providing symbolic names for otherwise inscrutable numbers, which are used throughout the template layer.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Miscellaneous utility routines for some fundamental I6 needs.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To start up the Glk interface for the Glulx virtual machine, and provide Glulx-specific printing functions.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To provide routines handling low-level Z-machine facilities.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To manage the line skips which space paragraphs out.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Mathematical functions, especially for real numbers.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Reading and writing external files, in the Glulx virtual machine only.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To sort arrays.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To read, write, search and allocate rows in the Table data structure.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To allocate space on the memory stack for frames of variables to be used by rulebooks, activities and actions.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To work through the rules in a rulebook until a decision is made.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To allocate flexible-sized blocks of memory as needed to hold arbitrary-length strings of text, stored actions or other block values.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Routines for copying, comparing, creating and destroying block values, and for reading and writing them as if they were arrays.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Code to support the text kind of value.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To tabulate casings in the character set.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To decide whether letters are upper or lower case, and convert between the two.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Code to match and replace on regular expressions against indexed text strings.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Code to support the list of... kind of value constructor.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Code to support the combination kind of value constructor.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > Code to support the relation kind.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To manage run-time storage for relations between objects, and to find routes through relations and the map.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "purpose" > To issue run-time problem messages, and to perform some run-time type checking which may issue such messages.< / span > < / p >
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