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< p class = "purpose" > Generating runtime support code for resources needed in Inform texts. This is version 1.< / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Preliminaries< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > What This Module Does< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > An overview of the runtime module's role and abilities.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Chapter 1: Configuration and Control< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Runtime Module< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Setting up the use of this module.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Chapter 2: Emission< / span > < / p >
< p class = "chapterpurpose" > Emitting Inter code ready for the code-generator.< / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Compilation Units< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To identify which parts of the source text come from which source (the main source text, the Standard Rules, or another extension).< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Chapter 3: Calculated Adjectives< / span > < / p >
< p class = "chapterpurpose" > Adjectives whose truth or falsity at run-time has to be determined by running code.< / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Adjectival Definitions< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > The second of four ways phrases are invoked: as definitions of adjectives which can be used as unary predicates in the calculus. (And we also look after adjectives arising from I6 or I7 conditions, and from I6 routines.)< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Adjectives by Raw Phrase< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Defining an adjective with an I6 routine.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Adjectives by Raw Condition< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Defining an adjective with an I6 condition.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Adjectives defined by an I7 phrase.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Defining an adjective with an I7 condition.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "chaptertitle" > Chapter 4: Compilation Utilities< / span > < / p >
< p class = "chapterpurpose" > Mainly low-level utilities for compiling code.< / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Fundamental Constants< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Inter constants for, say, extremal number values, which depend on the target we are compiling to, and are generally low-level in nature.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Inform 6 Inclusions< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To include Inform 6 code almost verbatim in the output, as instructed by low-level Inform 7 sentences.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To write support code for the Standard Library's "group together" phrases.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > I7 is has no Dijkstra-like conscience about compiling code which is full of |jump| statements, and these require labels to jump to. This section provides those labels, and other related unique-ID-number counters.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > In this section we compile text constants.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > In this section we compile text with substitutions.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > In this section we keep track of response texts.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile string constants and comments.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > In this section we compile I6 arrays for constant lists arising from braced literals.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile the bones of functions, and their local variable declarations.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Equations Support< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile unique identifiers for equations.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > I6 Template Interpreter< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Inform 6 template language, or I6T for short, is a notation for expressing low-level code in Inter.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Test Scripts< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > A rudimentary but useful testing system built in to IF produced by Inform, allowing short sequences of commands to be concisely noted in the source text and tried out in the Inform application using the TEST command.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Handling requests to compile internal tests.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Use Options at Run Time< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To give certain use options a presence at run-time.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Temporary Variables< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > When the run-time code needs to borrow a global variable for a while.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile run-time support for nonlocal variables.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile run-time support for properties.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile run-time support for measurement adjectives.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Emit Property Values< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To feed the hierarchy of instances and their property values into Inter.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile run-time support for instances.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > A plugin which maintains run-time-accessible linked lists of instances of kinds, in order to speed up loops; and instance counts within kinds, in order to speed up relation storage; and the object-kind hierarchy, in order to speed up run-time checking of the type safety of property usage.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile run-time support for adjective definitions.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Runtime Support for Kinds< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile I6 material needed at runtime to enable kinds to function as they should.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To provide the credits routines.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Noun Identifiers< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Nametags provide for a more contextual parsing of nouns, allowing them to be given in an inexact verbal form.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Verbs at Run Time< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To provide run-time access to verbs and their conjugations.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Relations at Run Time< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Relations need both storage and support code at runtime.< / span > < / p >
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< spon class = "sectiontitle" > Literal Patterns at Run Time< / span > < / a > -
< span class = "sectionpurpose" > Compiled code to print and parse values expressed as literals.< / span > < / p >
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< span class = "sectionpurpose" > To compile run-time data structures holding tables.< / span > < / p >
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