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<title>Upgrading?</title>
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<p class="sectionheading">Upgrading?</p>
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<p>If you haven't used the spring 2014 builds of Inform before, much has changed. The Mac OS X application had been considerably enhanced, for one thing, but the changes go deeper than that. Here are just the headlines: for the full story, see the ebook "Changes to Inform", which you can access from the Launcher.</p>
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<p>Firstly: the old "Materials" folder has been renamed ".materials". So if your project is called "Dream.inform" then it's accompanied by "Dream.materials", not "Dream Materials" as before.</p>
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<p>Secondly: the language has much better handling of text, getting rid of "indexed" text entirely, and providing grammatical adaptation - the ability to turn "You go out" automatically into "They went out", for example. There's also real number support with scientific functions (so you can perform physical calculations and have Inform check the dimensions, for example); there are named constants; there's a new ability for projects to have their own private Extensions; and so on.</p>
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<p>Thirdly: a whole pile of phrases which have been deprecated since before 2010 have finally been removed from the language. If you're still using any of those, you'll need to reword - there's advice on this in the Changes book.</p>
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<p>Finally, more than 400 bugs have been fixed, which resolves over 95% of all known issues with Inform.</p>
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