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• inter

For handling intermediate Inform code. This is version 1.

• Manual

  Documentation for the Inter format itself, as well as the inter tool which processes it.

  • Using Inter - Using Inter at the command line.

  • Textual Inter - A specification of the inter language, as written out in text file form.

  • Data Packages in Textual Inter - How static data, variables and constants are expressed in textual inter programs.

  • Code Packages in Textual Inter - How executable functions are expressed in textual inter programs.

  • Inform Primitives - The standard set of primitive invocations used within Inform.

  • Inform Annotations - The standard set of symbol annotations used within Inform.

  • Inform Organisation - The standard hierarchy of inter code generated by Inform.

  • Pipelines and Stages - Sequences of named code-generation stages are called pipelines.

  • Reference Card - The current help information as it would be printed at the command line.

• Chapter 1: Delegation

  • Basics - Some fundamental definitions.

  • Main - The top level, which decides what is to be done and then carries this plan out.

  • Unit Tests - Scaffolding code to run unit tests not otherwise represented as inter stages.

Together with the following imported modules:

• foundation - A library of common code used by all of the Inform tools.

• inbuild/words - A library of code for reading natural language into a stream of words.

• inbuild/arch - Definitions of Inter and final VM architectures.

• inter - Code for dealing with intermediate-level Inform.

• building - An intermediate layer for building code in Inter.

• codegen - The code generation pipeline.