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This repository is where development is done on the following:
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* inform7 - The core compiler in a natural-language design system for interactive fiction. Current version 7.10.1 'Krypton' (build 6Q21). Web of InC
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* inform7 - The core compiler in a natural-language design system for interactive fiction. - __version 7.10.1 'Krypton' (build 6Q21)__ - Web of InC
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* The I6 Template - The .i6t files used in code generation. Inform 6; held in inform7/Internal/I6T
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions - Libraries of code. Inform 7
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Basic Help Menu.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Basic Screen Effects.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Complex Listing.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Entry Points.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Image Centering.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Text Effects.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Inanimate Listeners.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Locksmith.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Menus.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Punctuation Removal.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Skeleton Keys.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Eric Eve/Epistemology.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Approximate Metric Units.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/English Language.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Metric Units.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Rideable Vehicles.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Unicode Character Names.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Unicode Full Character Names.i7x
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Basic Help Menu.i7x - __unversioned__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Basic Screen Effects.i7x - __version 7/140425__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Complex Listing.i7x - __version 9__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Entry Points.i7x - __version 10/140425__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Image Centering.i7x - __version 4__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Text Effects.i7x - __version 5/140516__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Inanimate Listeners.i7x - __unversioned__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Locksmith.i7x - __version 12__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Menus.i7x - __version 3__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Punctuation Removal.i7x - __version 5__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Skeleton Keys.i7x - __unversioned__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Eric Eve/Epistemology.i7x - __version 9__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Approximate Metric Units.i7x - __version 1__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/English Language.i7x - __version 1__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Metric Units.i7x - __version 2__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Rideable Vehicles.i7x - __version 3__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Unicode Character Names.i7x - __unversioned__
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* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Unicode Full Character Names.i7x - __unversioned__
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* inform7/Internal/HTML - Files needed for generating extension documentation and the like. HTML, Javascript, CSS
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* inform7/Internal/Languages - Natural language definition bundles
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* inform7/Internal/Templates - template websites for Inform 7's 'release as a website' feature
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* Internal/Templates/Classic
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* Internal/Templates/Standard
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* inblorb - The packaging stage of the Inform 7 system, which releases a story file in the blorbed format. Current version 4 'Duralumin'. Web of InC
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* inblorb - The packaging stage of the Inform 7 system, which releases a story file in the blorbed format. - __version 4 'Duralumin'__ - Web of InC
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* indoc - The documentation-formatter for the Inform 7 system. Current version 4 'Didache'. Web of InC
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* indoc - The documentation-formatter for the Inform 7 system. - __version 4 'Didache'__ - Web of InC
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* inpolicy - A lint-like tool to check up on various policies used in Inform source code. Current version 1 'Plan A'. Web of InC
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* inpolicy - A lint-like tool to check up on various policies used in Inform source code. - __version 1 'Plan A'__ - Web of InC
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* inrtps - A generator of HTML pages to show for run-time problem messages in Inform. Current version 2 'Benefactive'. Web of InC
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* inrtps - A generator of HTML pages to show for run-time problem messages in Inform. - __version 2 'Benefactive'__ - Web of InC
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* inter - For handling intermediate Inform code Current version 1 'Axion'. Web of InC
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* inter - For handling intermediate Inform code. - __version 1 'Axion'__ - Web of InC
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* srules - The Standard Rules extension, included in all Inform 7 works Current . Web of Inform 7
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* srules - The Standard Rules extension, included in all Inform 7 works. - __version 5/190315__ - Web of Inform 7
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The "resources" directory holds a number of non-executable items of use to the
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but this is not where development on them is done, and no pull requests will
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be accepted. (Note that these are not git submodules.)
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* inform6 - the Inform 6 compiler (used by I7 as a code generator) - from [https://github.com/DavidKinder/Inform6], maintained by [David Kinder](https://github.com/DavidKinder)
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* inform6 - The Inform 6 compiler (used by I7 as a code generator). - __version 1634 '5th March 2016'__ - from [https://github.com/DavidKinder/Inform6], maintained by [David Kinder](https://github.com/DavidKinder)
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* inform7/Internal/Templates - template websites for Inform 7's 'release as a website' feature
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* inform7/Internal/Templates/Parchment - from [https://github.com/curiousdannii/parchment], maintained by [Dannii Willis](https://github.com/curiousdannii)
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* inform7/Internal/Templates/Quixe - from [https://github.com/erkyrath/quixe], maintained by [Andrew Plotkin](https://github.com/erkyrath)
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* inform7/Internal/Templates/Vorpal - from (part of) [https://github.com/vorple/inform7], maintained by [Juhana Leinonen](https://github.com/vorple)
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* inform7/Internal/Templates/Parchment - Z-machine in Javascript - __version 'Parchment for Inform 7 (2015-09-25)'__ - from [https://github.com/curiousdannii/parchment], maintained by [Dannii Willis](https://github.com/curiousdannii)
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* inform7/Internal/Templates/Quixe - Glulx in Javascript - __version 'Quixe for Inform 7 (v. 2.1.2)'__ - from [https://github.com/erkyrath/quixe], maintained by [Andrew Plotkin](https://github.com/erkyrath)
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* inform7/Internal/Templates/Vorple - Multimedia in Javascript - __version 'Vorple'__ - from [https://github.com/vorple/inform7], maintained by [Juhana Leinonen](https://github.com/vorple)
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### Binary resources (such as image files)
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: The documentation-formatter for the Inform 7 system.
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Language: InC
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Licence: Artistic License 2.0
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Version Number: 4
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Version Name: Didache
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Purpose: The core compiler in a natural-language design system for interactive fiction.
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Language: InC
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Preform Language: English
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Licence: Artistic License 2.0
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Import: foundation
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A brief note on using Inform 7 at the command line.
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@h What Inform 7 is.
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@h Disclaimer.
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This is not documentation on the Inform language or its user-interface apps:
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it's a technical note on how the command-line tool inside those apps is called.
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The |inform7| executable has a few ancillary functions, but basically it
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takes natural language source text and compiles it to either "inter", an
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intermediate-level code, or all the way to Inform 6 source code. In order
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random outcomes predictable when testing": the app achieves this by adding
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the switch |-rng| to the above command-line call.
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@ If the app has a feature for systematically testing each example in an
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extension project, then it should add the switch |-case A| when running
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example A through inform7, |-case B| for B, and so on. This ensures that
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if the compiler generates Problem messages (i,e., if those tests fail
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to compile) then source-reference links will be to the right examples.
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For ordinary, non-Extension, projects, this switch should not be used.
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@ When the app installs a new extension (in the external area), or is run
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for the first time, it should call Inform 7 to perform a "census" of the
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available extensions. The compiler then looks through its internal and
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external areas, and creates suitable HTML pages showing what it finds,
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which it stores in a writeable area of the file system called the "transient"
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directory.
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The usage for this is:
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|inform7/Tangled/inform7 -internal I -external E -transient T -census|
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(The caller has the obligation to provide the Transient directory.)
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@h Experimental Inter features.
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The options |-export X|, |-import X| and |-inter X| are not final, likely
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@h Testing and debugging switches.
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The following switches are used only when testing or maintaining Inform,
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and are unlikely to be useful to end users:
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(a) |-clock| times the run;
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and are unlikely to be useful to end users. Many of these are, however,
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used in the Intest scripts for testing Inform 7 and Inblorb.
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(a) |-clock| times the run.
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(b) |-crash-all| performs a deliberate hard crash, dividing by zero, in
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the event of any Problem message being issues -- this makes it easier to
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obtain stack backtraces in a debugger;
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obtain stack backtraces in a debugger.
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(c) |-noindex| skips the production of an Index, which reduces file system
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writes in a big testing run, and also saves a little time;
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writes in a big testing run, and also saves a little time.
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(d) |-noprogress| suppresses console output of the "++ 26% (Binding rulebooks)"
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kind;
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kind.
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(e) |-sigils| causes each Problem message to be preceded in console output
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by its "sigil", that is, its internal code: for example, |PM_PropertyNameTooLong|;
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by its "sigil", that is, its internal code. A typical sigil is
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|PM_PropertyNameTooLong|, where the ubiquitous PM stands for "property
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message".
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(f) |-require-problem SIGIL| tells Inform to return an exit code of 0 if
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exactly this problem message is produced, and 1 otherwise;
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(g) |-case X|
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@ Inform returns an exit code of 0 if successful, or else it throws errors
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to |stderr| and returns 1 if unsuccessful.
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exactly this problem message is produced, and 1 otherwise.
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@h Prehistory.
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Build 1A01 was the first rough draft of a completed compiler: but it did
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CommandLine::declare_textual_switch(FORMAT_CLSW, L"format", 1,
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L"compile I6 code suitable for the virtual machine X");
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CommandLine::declare_boolean_switch(CENSUS_CLSW, L"census", 1,
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L"rather than compile, perform an extensions census");
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L"perform an extensions census (rather than compile)");
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CommandLine::declare_boolean_switch(CLOCK_CLSW, L"clock", 1,
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L"time how long inform7 takes to run");
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CommandLine::declare_boolean_switch(DEBUG_CLSW, L"debug", 1,
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: The core of the Inform compiler, as a module.
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Language: InC
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Licence: Artistic License 2.0
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Chapter 1: Configuration and Control
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Title: core-test
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: For testing the core compiler module in isolation from its IF layer
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Purpose: For testing the core compiler module in isolation from its IF layer.
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Language: C for Inform
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: The interactive-fiction specific layer of Inform, as a module.
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Language: InC
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Licence: Artistic License 2.0
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Chapter 1: Starting Up
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: Indexing tools needed by Inform, as a module.
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Language: InC
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Licence: Artistic License 2.0
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Chapter 1: Starting Up
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Title: inflections-test
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: For testing foundation
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Purpose: Purpose: Unit tests for the inflections module.
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: The type system used by Inform.
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Language: InC
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Licence: Artistic License 2.0
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Chapter 1: Starting Up
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Title: kinds-test
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Purpose: For testing kinds
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Purpose: Unit tests for the kinds module.
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Title: linguistics
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: A library of common code used by all of the Inform tools.
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Purpose: A library of code to store grammatical categories of vocabulary.
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Language: InC
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Licence: Artistic License 2.0
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Chapter 1: Setting Up
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Purpose: For testing linguistics
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Purpose: Unit tests for the linguistics module.
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Author: Graham Nelson
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Purpose: A multimedia extension module for Inform.
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Language: InC
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Declare Section Usage: Off
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Licence: Artistic License 2.0
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Chapter 1: Starting Up
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Purpose: The issuing mechanism for problem messages used by Inform.
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Web Syntax Version: 2
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Purpose: For testing problems
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Purpose: Unit tests for the problems module.
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Purpose: A library of common code used by all of the Inform tools.
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Purpose: A library of code to build a parse tree and break text into sentences.
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Purpose: A library of common code used by all of the Inform tools.
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Purpose: A library of code for reading natural language into a stream of words.
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Purpose: Unit tests for the words module.
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pathname *D = Pathnames::from_text(I"resources");
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DISCARD_TEXT(program);
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if (P->current_version) {
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WRITE(" %S", P->current_version->number);
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if (Str::len(P->current_version->name) > 0)
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WRITE(" '%S'", P->current_version->name);
|
||||
if (Str::ne(P->current_version->build_code, I"9Z99"))
|
||||
WRITE(" (build %S)", P->current_version->build_code);
|
||||
} else {
|
||||
WRITE("unversioned");
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
Regexp::dispose_of(&mr);
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ typedef struct project {
|
|||
struct version *current_version;
|
||||
struct text_stream *purpose;
|
||||
struct text_stream *conts;
|
||||
int next_is_version;
|
||||
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
|
||||
} project;
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -32,8 +33,11 @@ typedef struct version {
|
|||
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
|
||||
} version;
|
||||
|
||||
@ And here we turn a named web into its |project| structure. We print its
|
||||
current version number when we first load a project in:
|
||||
@ And here we take a filename or pathname, which might be to a web, with
|
||||
or without a versions file; or to an extension; or to a website template;
|
||||
or to the original Inform 6 source code. These all store their version
|
||||
numbering differently, so we need code which is something of a Swiss army
|
||||
knife.
|
||||
|
||||
=
|
||||
project *Inversion::read(text_stream *web, int silently) {
|
||||
|
|
@ -48,10 +52,26 @@ project *Inversion::read(text_stream *web, int silently) {
|
|||
P->current_version = NULL;
|
||||
P->conts = Str::new();
|
||||
P->purpose = Str::new();
|
||||
P->versions_file = Filenames::in_folder(Pathnames::from_text(web), I"versions.txt");
|
||||
P->contents_file = Filenames::in_folder(Pathnames::from_text(web), I"Contents.w");
|
||||
if (TextFiles::exists(P->contents_file)) @<Read in the contents file@>;
|
||||
if (TextFiles::exists(P->versions_file)) @<Read in the versions file@>;
|
||||
P->next_is_version = FALSE;
|
||||
if (Str::ends_with_wide_string(web, L".i7x")) {
|
||||
P->versions_file = NULL;
|
||||
P->contents_file = NULL;
|
||||
@<Read in the extension file@>;
|
||||
} else {
|
||||
P->versions_file = Filenames::in_folder(Pathnames::from_text(web), I"versions.txt");
|
||||
P->contents_file = Filenames::in_folder(Pathnames::from_text(web), I"Contents.w");
|
||||
if (TextFiles::exists(P->contents_file)) {
|
||||
@<Read in the contents file@>;
|
||||
if (TextFiles::exists(P->versions_file) == FALSE)
|
||||
@<Read version from the contents file@>;
|
||||
}
|
||||
if (TextFiles::exists(P->versions_file)) @<Read in the versions file@>;
|
||||
filename *I6_vn = Filenames::in_folder(
|
||||
Pathnames::subfolder(Pathnames::from_text(web), I"inform6"), I"header.h");
|
||||
if (TextFiles::exists(I6_vn)) @<Read in I6 source header file@>;
|
||||
filename *template_vn = Filenames::in_folder(Pathnames::from_text(web), I"(manifest).txt");
|
||||
if (TextFiles::exists(template_vn)) @<Read in template manifest file@>;
|
||||
}
|
||||
@<Print the current version number@>;
|
||||
return P;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
|
@ -61,14 +81,44 @@ project *Inversion::read(text_stream *web, int silently) {
|
|||
PRINT("%S: %S %S (build %S)\n", web,
|
||||
P->current_version->name, P->current_version->number, P->current_version->build_code);
|
||||
|
||||
@<Read in the extension file@> =
|
||||
TextFiles::read(Filenames::from_text(web), FALSE, "unable to read extension", TRUE,
|
||||
&Inversion::extension_harvester, NULL, P);
|
||||
|
||||
@<Read in the contents file@> =
|
||||
TextFiles::read(P->contents_file, FALSE, "unable to read contents section", TRUE,
|
||||
&Inversion::contents_harvester, NULL, P);
|
||||
|
||||
@<Read version from the contents file@> =
|
||||
TextFiles::read(P->contents_file, FALSE, "unable to read contents section", TRUE,
|
||||
&Inversion::contents_version_harvester, NULL, P);
|
||||
|
||||
@<Read in the versions file@> =
|
||||
TextFiles::read(P->versions_file, FALSE, "unable to read roster of version numbers", TRUE,
|
||||
&Inversion::version_harvester, NULL, P);
|
||||
|
||||
@<Read in I6 source header file@> =
|
||||
TextFiles::read(I6_vn, FALSE, "unable to read header file from I6 source", TRUE,
|
||||
&Inversion::header_harvester, NULL, P);
|
||||
|
||||
@<Read in template manifest file@> =
|
||||
TextFiles::read(template_vn, FALSE, "unable to read manifest file from website template", TRUE,
|
||||
&Inversion::template_harvester, NULL, P);
|
||||
|
||||
@ The format for the contents section of a web is documented in Inweb.
|
||||
|
||||
=
|
||||
void Inversion::extension_harvester(text_stream *text, text_file_position *tfp, void *state) {
|
||||
project *P = (project *) state;
|
||||
match_results mr = Regexp::create_mr();
|
||||
if (Str::len(text) == 0) return;
|
||||
if (Regexp::match(&mr, text, L" *Version (%c*?) of %c*begins here. *")) {
|
||||
@<Ensure a current version exists@>;
|
||||
P->current_version->number = Str::duplicate(mr.exp[0]);
|
||||
}
|
||||
Regexp::dispose_of(&mr);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@ The format for the contents section of a web is documented in Inweb.
|
||||
|
||||
=
|
||||
|
|
@ -82,6 +132,17 @@ void Inversion::contents_harvester(text_stream *text, text_file_position *tfp, v
|
|||
Regexp::dispose_of(&mr);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
void Inversion::contents_version_harvester(text_stream *text, text_file_position *tfp, void *state) {
|
||||
project *P = (project *) state;
|
||||
match_results mr = Regexp::create_mr();
|
||||
if (Str::len(text) == 0) return;
|
||||
if (Regexp::match(&mr, text, L" *Version Number: *(%c*?) *")) {
|
||||
@<Ensure a current version exists@>;
|
||||
P->current_version->number = Str::duplicate(mr.exp[0]);
|
||||
}
|
||||
Regexp::dispose_of(&mr);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@ A version file contains lines which can either be a special command, or
|
||||
give details of a version. The commands are |Automatic| or |Manual| (the
|
||||
latter is the default), or |Sync to W|, where |W| is another project.
|
||||
|
|
@ -119,6 +180,57 @@ void Inversion::version_harvester(text_stream *text, text_file_position *tfp, vo
|
|||
Regexp::dispose_of(&mr);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@ Explicit code to read from |header.h| in the Inform 6 repository.
|
||||
|
||||
=
|
||||
void Inversion::header_harvester(text_stream *text, text_file_position *tfp, void *state) {
|
||||
project *P = (project *) state;
|
||||
match_results mr = Regexp::create_mr();
|
||||
if (Str::len(text) == 0) return;
|
||||
if (Regexp::match(&mr, text, L"#define RELEASE_NUMBER (%c*?) *")) {
|
||||
@<Ensure a current version exists@>;
|
||||
P->current_version->number = Str::duplicate(mr.exp[0]);
|
||||
}
|
||||
if (Regexp::match(&mr, text, L"#define RELEASE_DATE \"(%c*?)\" *")) {
|
||||
@<Ensure a current version exists@>;
|
||||
P->current_version->name = Str::duplicate(mr.exp[0]);
|
||||
P->current_version->date = Str::duplicate(mr.exp[0]);
|
||||
}
|
||||
Regexp::dispose_of(&mr);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@ Explicit code to read from the manifest file of a website template.
|
||||
|
||||
=
|
||||
void Inversion::template_harvester(text_stream *text, text_file_position *tfp, void *state) {
|
||||
project *P = (project *) state;
|
||||
match_results mr = Regexp::create_mr();
|
||||
if (Str::len(text) == 0) return;
|
||||
if (Regexp::match(&mr, text, L"%[INTERPRETERVERSION%]")) {
|
||||
P->next_is_version = TRUE;
|
||||
} else if (P->next_is_version) {
|
||||
@<Ensure a current version exists@>;
|
||||
P->current_version->name = Str::duplicate(text);
|
||||
P->next_is_version = FALSE;
|
||||
}
|
||||
Regexp::dispose_of(&mr);
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@ And many of the above use this, which assumes there will be just one single
|
||||
version number known for a program.
|
||||
|
||||
@<Ensure a current version exists@> =
|
||||
if (P->current_version == NULL) {
|
||||
version *V = CREATE(version);
|
||||
V->name = NULL;
|
||||
V->number = NULL;
|
||||
V->build_code = I"9Z99";
|
||||
V->date = NULL;
|
||||
V->notes = NULL;
|
||||
ADD_TO_LINKED_LIST(V, version, P->versions);
|
||||
P->current_version = V;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@ The following then writes back the versions file, following a version
|
||||
increment:
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ Title: inpolicy
|
|||
Author: Graham Nelson
|
||||
Purpose: A lint-like tool to check up on various policies used in Inform source code.
|
||||
Language: InC
|
||||
Declare Section Usage: Off
|
||||
Web Syntax Version: 2
|
||||
Licence: Artistic License 2.0
|
||||
Version Number: 1
|
||||
Version Name: Plan A
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
|
|||
Title: inter
|
||||
Author: Graham Nelson
|
||||
Purpose: For handling intermediate Inform code
|
||||
Purpose: For handling intermediate Inform code.
|
||||
Language: InC
|
||||
Declare Section Usage: Off
|
||||
Web Syntax Version: 2
|
||||
Licence: Artistic License 2.0
|
||||
Version Number: 1
|
||||
Version Name: Axion
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ Title: codegen
|
|||
Author: Graham Nelson
|
||||
Purpose: An embryonic code generator for I6 code.
|
||||
Language: InC
|
||||
Declare Section Usage: Off
|
||||
Web Syntax Version: 2
|
||||
Licence: Artistic License 2.0
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 1: Setting Up
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ Title: inter
|
|||
Author: Graham Nelson
|
||||
Purpose: Code for dealing with intermediate-level Inform
|
||||
Language: InC
|
||||
Declare Section Usage: Off
|
||||
Web Syntax Version: 2
|
||||
Licence: Artistic License 2.0
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 1: Setting Up
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -86,32 +86,35 @@ assembles all those programs and resources, which fall into two categories:
|
|||
This repository is where development is done on the following:
|
||||
|
||||
@define primary(program, language)
|
||||
* @program - @purpose(@program) Current @version(@program). @language
|
||||
* @program - @purpose(@program) - __@version(@program)__ - @language
|
||||
@end
|
||||
@define book(title, path, topic)
|
||||
* @title - @topic. Ebook in Indoc format, stored at path @path.
|
||||
@end
|
||||
@define extension(path)
|
||||
* @path - __@version(@path)__
|
||||
@end
|
||||
@primary(inform7, 'Web of InC')
|
||||
* The I6 Template - The .i6t files used in code generation. Inform 6; held in inform7/Internal/I6T
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions - Libraries of code. Inform 7
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Basic Help Menu.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Basic Screen Effects.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Complex Listing.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Entry Points.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Image Centering.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Text Effects.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Inanimate Listeners.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Locksmith.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Menus.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Punctuation Removal.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Skeleton Keys.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Eric Eve/Epistemology.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Approximate Metric Units.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/English Language.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Metric Units.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Rideable Vehicles.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Unicode Character Names.i7x
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Unicode Full Character Names.i7x
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Basic Help Menu.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Basic Screen Effects.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Complex Listing.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Entry Points.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Image Centering.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Glulx Text Effects.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Inanimate Listeners.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Locksmith.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Menus.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Punctuation Removal.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Emily Short/Skeleton Keys.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Eric Eve/Epistemology.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Approximate Metric Units.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/English Language.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Metric Units.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Rideable Vehicles.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Unicode Character Names.i7x')
|
||||
@extension('inform7/Internal/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Unicode Full Character Names.i7x')
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/HTML - Files needed for generating extension documentation and the like. HTML, Javascript, CSS
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Languages - Natural language definition bundles
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Templates - template websites for Inform 7's 'release as a website' feature
|
||||
|
|
@ -152,14 +155,17 @@ but this is not where development on them is done, and no pull requests will
|
|||
be accepted. (Note that these are not git submodules.)
|
||||
|
||||
@define secondary(program, for, maintainer, username, repository)
|
||||
* @program - @for - from [https://github.com/@username/@repository], maintained by [@maintainer](https://github.com/@username)
|
||||
* @program - @for - __@version(@program)__ - from [https://github.com/@username/@repository], maintained by [@maintainer](https://github.com/@username)
|
||||
@end
|
||||
@secondary(inform6, 'the Inform 6 compiler (used by I7 as a code generator)', 'David Kinder', DavidKinder, Inform6)
|
||||
@secondary(inform6, 'The Inform 6 compiler (used by I7 as a code generator).', 'David Kinder', DavidKinder, Inform6)
|
||||
|
||||
@define template(program, for, maintainer, username, repository)
|
||||
* @program - @for - __@version(@program)__ - from [https://github.com/@username/@repository], maintained by [@maintainer](https://github.com/@username)
|
||||
@end
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Templates - template websites for Inform 7's 'release as a website' feature
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Templates/Parchment - from [https://github.com/curiousdannii/parchment], maintained by [Dannii Willis](https://github.com/curiousdannii)
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Templates/Quixe - from [https://github.com/erkyrath/quixe], maintained by [Andrew Plotkin](https://github.com/erkyrath)
|
||||
* inform7/Internal/Templates/Vorpal - from (part of) [https://github.com/vorple/inform7], maintained by [Juhana Leinonen](https://github.com/vorple)
|
||||
@template('inform7/Internal/Templates/Parchment', 'Z-machine in Javascript', 'Dannii Willis', curiousdannii, parchment)
|
||||
@template('inform7/Internal/Templates/Quixe', 'Glulx in Javascript', 'Andrew Plotkin', erkyrath, quixe)
|
||||
@template('inform7/Internal/Templates/Vorple', 'Multimedia in Javascript', 'Juhana Leinonen', vorple, inform7)
|
||||
|
||||
### Binary resources (such as image files)
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
|||
Title: srules
|
||||
Author: Graham Nelson
|
||||
Purpose: The Standard Rules extension, included in all Inform 7 works
|
||||
Purpose: The Standard Rules extension, included in all Inform 7 works.
|
||||
Version Number: 5/190315
|
||||
Language: Inform 7
|
||||
Web Syntax Version: 2
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ this was explained in terms of Missee Lee, a black and white cat
|
|||
living in North Oxford; named for a Cambridge-educated pirate queen in
|
||||
the South China seas who is the heroine -- or villainess -- of the
|
||||
tenth in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's
|
||||
books, {\it Missee Lee} (1941). The rule was then removed, but it
|
||||
books, "Missee Lee" (1941). The rule was then removed, but it
|
||||
seemed sad to delete the only mention of Missee, and all the more so
|
||||
since she died (at a grand old age and in mid-spring) in 2008.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ Rule for deciding whether all includes a person while dropping or throwing
|
|||
it does not.
|
||||
|
||||
@ The supplying activities are linguistically interesting, for reasons gone
|
||||
into in the paper {\it Interactive Fiction, Natural Language and Semantic
|
||||
Analysis}: English verbs do not naturally seem to feature optional nouns.
|
||||
into in the paper "Interactive Fiction, Natural Language and Semantic
|
||||
Analysis": English verbs do not naturally seem to feature optional nouns.
|
||||
Indeed, we say "it rained on Tuesday" where "it" refers to nothing at all,
|
||||
merely because we can't bring ourselves to leave a gap and say just "rained
|
||||
on Tuesday". A better example here would be "it sounded like rain", because
|
||||
|
|
@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ by repeatedly calling the following activity:
|
|||
=
|
||||
Handling the final question is an activity. [29]
|
||||
|
||||
@ It follows that this activity {\it must} at least sometimes do something
|
||||
@ It follows that this activity must at least sometimes do something
|
||||
dramatic to the execution state: perform a quit, for instance. Four
|
||||
primitive rules are available for the drastic things which the activity
|
||||
might wish to do, but these are not placed in any rulebook: instead they
|
||||
|
|
@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ then a single (though often, as here, multi-paragraph) locale:
|
|||
|
||||
|Sentier Le Corbusier|
|
||||
|A coastal walk along the rocky shore between Nice and Menton.|
|
||||
| | {\it now the locale for the room Sentier Le Corbusier:}
|
||||
| ...now the locale for the room Sentier Le Corbusier:|
|
||||
|A translucent jellyfish has been washed up by the waves.|
|
||||
| |
|
||||
|You can also see a bucket and a spade here.|
|
||||
|
|
@ -387,11 +387,11 @@ When the player is in or on top of something, multiple locales are described:
|
|||
|
||||
|Sentier Le Corbusier (in the golf cart)|
|
||||
|A coastal walk along the rocky shore between Nice and Menton.|
|
||||
| | {\it now the locale for the room Sentier Le Corbusier:}
|
||||
| ...now the locale for the room Sentier Le Corbusier:|
|
||||
|A translucent jellyfish has been washed up by the waves.|
|
||||
| |
|
||||
|You can also see a bucket and a spade here.|
|
||||
| | {\it now the locale for the golf cart:}
|
||||
| ...now the locale for the golf cart:|
|
||||
|In the golf cart you can see a map of Villefranche-sur-Mer.|
|
||||
|
||||
To sum up, the text produced by LOOK consists of a header (produced by
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ are case sensitive on the first word, so that "to say a something" and "to
|
|||
say A something" are different.
|
||||
|
||||
A curiosity of the original I6 design, arising I think mostly from the need to
|
||||
save property memory in {\it Curses} (1993), the work of IF for which Inform 1
|
||||
save property memory in "Curses" (1993), the work of IF for which Inform 1
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had been created, is that it lacks the |print (A) ...| syntax to match the
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other forms. The omission is made good by using a routine in the I6 library
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instead.
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@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ reimplements a form of Jon Ingold's former extension Text Variations, which
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itself built on code going back to the days of I6.
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The head phrase here has one of the most complicated definitions in the SR,
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but is actually documented fairly explicitly in the {\it Extensions} chapter
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of {\it Writing with Inform}, so we won't repeat all that here. Essentially
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but is actually documented fairly explicitly in the Extensions chapter
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of "Writing with Inform", so we won't repeat all that here. Essentially
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it uses its own allocated cell of storage in an array to remember a state
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between uses, and compiles as a switch statement based on the current state.
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(- (keep_silent == false) -).
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@ The requirements of the current action can be tested. The following
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may be reimplemented using a verb {\it to require} at some future point.
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may be reimplemented using a verb "to require" at some future point.
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=
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Section SR5/4/2 - Actions, activities and rules - Action requirements (for interactive fiction language element only)
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@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ To decide which rulebook outcome is the outcome of the rulebook
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@h The model world.
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Phrase definitions with wordings like "the story has ended" are a
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necessary evil. The "has" here is parsed literally, not as the present
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tense of {\it to have}, so inflected forms like "the story had ended" are
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tense of "to have", so inflected forms like "the story had ended" are
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not available: nor is there any value "the story" for the subject noun
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phrase to hold... and so on. Ideally, we would word all conditional phrases
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so as to avoid the verbs, but natural language just doesn't work that way.
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@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ To say parser command so far:
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(- PrintCommand(); -).
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@h Miscellaneous other phrases.
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Again, {\it these are not part of Inform's public specification}.
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Again, these are not part of Inform's public specification.
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=
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Section SR5/9/1 - Miscellaneous other phrases - Unindexed (for interactive fiction language element only)
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@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Definition: a thing is held if the player is holding it.
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@ Animate beings also have the ability to see and touch their surroundings,
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but note that we only model the ability to do these things -- we do not attempt
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to track what they actually do see or touch at any given moment, so there are
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no built-in verbs {\it to see} or {\it to touch}.
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no built-in verbs "to see" or "to touch".
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=
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The verb to be able to see means the visibility relation.
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@ -312,22 +312,18 @@ and so on).
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A thing has a text called a description.
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A thing has a text called an initial appearance.
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@ Lastly on things: an implication about scenery. The following sentence
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looks like an assertion much like others above ("A thing is usually inedible",
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for instance) -- but this is misleading. What is different is that instead of
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reading $K(x)\Rightarrow Q(x)$, where $K$ is a kind and $Q$ is a property,
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this has the form $P(x)\Rightarrow Q(x)$: it says that an object having
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property $P$ also probably has property $Q$. Such sentences are called
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implications, and the Standard Rules make only very sparing use of them.
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They can trip up the user (who may quite reasonably say that it is up to him
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what properties something has): but they are invaluable if they cause Inform
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to make deductions which any human reader would always make without thought.
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@ Lastly on things: an implication about scenery. The following sentence looks
|
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like an assertion much like others above ("A thing is usually inedible", for
|
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instance) -- but in fact it is an "implication": it says that an object having
|
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one property also probably has another. The Standard Rules make only very
|
||||
sparing use of implications. They can trip up the user (who may quite
|
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reasonably say that it is up to him what properties something has): but they
|
||||
are invaluable if they cause Inform to make deductions which any human reader
|
||||
would always make without thought.
|
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|
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They can of course be overruled by explicit sentences in the source text,
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just as every sentence qualified by "usually" can.
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The handful of implications in the Standard Rules are all commented as such.
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=
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Scenery is usually fixed in place. [An implication.]
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|
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@ -342,8 +338,8 @@ is how we get away with having just one set of 12 direction objects, not
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12 different ones for every location.) Implicit in that assumption is that
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the model world occupies a "flat" Euclidean space, to use further
|
||||
mathematical jargon: it doesn't wrap around on itself, and there are no
|
||||
bad positions where the directions fail. (Compare the Infocom game {\it Leather
|
||||
Goddesses of Phobos}, in which the South Pole of Mars is just such a
|
||||
bad positions where the directions fail. (Compare the Infocom game "Leather
|
||||
Goddesses of Phobos", in which the South Pole of Mars is just such a
|
||||
singularity: there are three routes out of this location, all of them
|
||||
"north". This of course required special programming, and so it would in
|
||||
an Inform 7 work, too.) More concisely:
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||||
|
|
@ -424,7 +420,7 @@ Of the rest, N/S, NE/SW, E/W, SE/NW and U/D, it's noteworthy that this
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|||
choice imposes a cubical grid on the world, simply because the compass
|
||||
directions are at 45 and 90 degree angles to each other: a hexagonal
|
||||
tessalation would be more faithful to distances (it would get rid of the
|
||||
awkward point that a NE move is $\sqrt{2}$ times the length of a N move),
|
||||
awkward point that a NE move is root 2 times the length of a N move),
|
||||
but in practice the world model doesn't care much about distances, another
|
||||
example of its qualitative nature. A further point is that, in a
|
||||
three-dimensional cubic lattice, we ought to have another eight pairs
|
||||
|
|
@ -514,7 +510,7 @@ A door is never pushable between rooms.
|
|||
Include (- has door, -) when defining a door.
|
||||
|
||||
@ "Every exit is an entrance somewhere else," as Stoppard's play
|
||||
{\it Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead} puts it: and though not all
|
||||
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" puts it: and though not all
|
||||
I7 doors are present on both sides, they do nevertheless have two sides.
|
||||
The representation of this is quite tricky because, as Stoppard implies,
|
||||
it's all a matter of which side you look at it from. What we call the
|
||||
|
|
@ -614,12 +610,6 @@ on the current one. (Doors do this for the "horizontal" spatial model
|
|||
between rooms, whereas containers do it for the "vertical" spatial model
|
||||
of objects enclosing each other.)
|
||||
|
||||
The following diagram shows the kinds created by the Standard Rules (bold
|
||||
boxes for fundamental kinds, plain ones for discretionary additions) and
|
||||
the patterns of behaviour they share (dotted boxes).
|
||||
|
||||
[[Fig_A_1.png width 15cm]]
|
||||
|
||||
@h The openability pattern.
|
||||
To satisfy the openability pattern, a thing has to provide both of the
|
||||
either/or properties "open" and "openable". This entitles it to be
|
||||
|
|
@ -745,7 +735,7 @@ more bytes of precious Z-machine array space than they necessarily would in
|
|||
I6. This is all part of the doctrine that in I7, all characters are equal
|
||||
in status: all can be the player, all can carry out actions. Anyway: here
|
||||
are all of those I6 properties, spatchcocked into the |Class| definition
|
||||
which NI will compile for "person" -- see $\S$21 of the DM4 for details
|
||||
which NI will compile for "person" -- see section 21 of the DM4 for details
|
||||
of why these are needed and what they do.
|
||||
|
||||
=
|
||||
|
|
@ -805,7 +795,7 @@ person is necessary as the domain of P in "P carries X", for instance), and
|
|||
that too many kinds confuses the picture and imposes what may be a constraining
|
||||
structure on the user, who should be free to decide for himself what concepts
|
||||
are most helpful to organise. These arguments are discussed further in the
|
||||
white paper, {\it Natural Language, Semantic Analysis and Interactive Fiction}
|
||||
white paper, "Natural Language, Semantic Analysis and Interactive Fiction"
|
||||
(2005), but briefly: we are minimalist but not puritanically so.
|
||||
|
||||
@h Men, women and animals.
|
||||
|
|
@ -865,8 +855,7 @@ fall into this category: it's intended to be used for "people" who are
|
|||
animate but probably not intelligent, or anyway, not participants in human
|
||||
society. It seems unusual to write "The black Labrador is a person."
|
||||
because that sounds like an insistent assertion of rights and thus a quite
|
||||
different sort of statement. (Don't drown that Labrador! He's a {\it
|
||||
person}.)
|
||||
different sort of statement. (Don't drown that Labrador! He's a person.)
|
||||
|
||||
As can be seen from the tiny definition of "animal", though, it's really
|
||||
nothing more than a name for a position in the kinds hierarchy. There is
|
||||
|
|
@ -907,7 +896,7 @@ kind which can be switched on or off."
|
|||
Here again the justification boils down to tradition. Vehicles were a
|
||||
staple ingredient of the Infocom classics, largely because of code
|
||||
originally written for the inflatable boat in the 1978-79 mainframe version
|
||||
of {\it Zork}, which was then copied through into later titles. Unlike
|
||||
of "Zork", which was then copied through into later titles. Unlike
|
||||
devices, though, vehicles are genuinely difficult to model, and the
|
||||
implementation provided by the Standard Rules would be quite a lot of
|
||||
work for a user to manage alone. (Consider, for instance, the case when
|
||||
|
|
@ -970,8 +959,7 @@ A vehicle is usually not portable.
|
|||
This is the final kind created in the Standard Rules, and probably the most
|
||||
doubtful of all. It simply provides a hook to a cute and traditional feature
|
||||
of the I6 library whereby spare possessions are automatically cleared out
|
||||
of the player's way: it derives from the rucksack in the 1993 IF title
|
||||
{\it Curses}.
|
||||
of the player's way: it derives from the rucksack in the 1993 IF title "Curses".
|
||||
|
||||
=
|
||||
Section SR1/15 - Player's holdall
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ indexing and rule-ordering tricks ameliorated this a little, but in the end
|
|||
it was just a bad design: withdrawing the ability to make check, carry out
|
||||
and report rules apply to multiple actions resulted in much cleaner code,
|
||||
and also a clearer conceptual definition of what these rulebooks were for.
|
||||
(But users still {\it didn't} like the change: actual functionality was
|
||||
(But users still didn't like the change: actual functionality was
|
||||
withdrawn.)
|
||||
|
||||
So if they are always empty and never used, why are the three rulebooks
|
||||
|
|
@ -691,8 +691,8 @@ which the user, or an extension included by the user, chooses to add to the
|
|||
turn sequence rules.
|
||||
|
||||
An unusual point here is that the "parse command rule" and the
|
||||
"generate action rule" are written such that they {\it do nothing unless
|
||||
the turn sequence rulebook is being followed at the top level} (by |Main|,
|
||||
"generate action rule" are written such that they do nothing unless
|
||||
the turn sequence rulebook is being followed at the top level (by |Main|,
|
||||
that is). This prevents them from being used recursively, which would not
|
||||
work properly, and enables a popular trick from the time before the 2008
|
||||
reform to keep working: we can simulate six turns going by in which the
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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