inform7/notes/release/1-2.md

Release notes for Inform v1.2 (build 3K56)

This release was made on 4 May 2006, before Inform was open-sourced. At that time versions of Inform were identified by build codes in the form NLNN.

This is part of the historical archive of release notes.

Language

• Changed the "tieing" action to "tying". (Inform's British author thought this was an American spelling, and vice versa. Sorry.) This entailed changes to examples Otranto, Brown, Snip, Snip Snip, and Under Contract.

Documentation, examples and extensions

• Bug in U-Stor-It example fixed, and Disappointment Bay 12 slightly improved.
• Tidied up documentation of Basic Screen Effects and Plurality extensions.

Bug fixes

• Fixed the "South is a dead end with printed name "Collapsed Dead End"." bug causing the Undertomb example in the main text to fail to compile.
• Fixed problem with the "Early Childhood 4" example.
• Fixed compiler hang to do with misunderstood sentences setting the kind of a kind to itself.
• Fixed internal error on "now X is P", where X is a thing and P an property which isn't an either/or property.
• Fixed problems with defining a kind which includes the word "object".
• Fixed internal error on sentences using "to have" incorrectly.
• Fixed internal error on assertions giving inexplicit information about the kinds of things (asserting kind(f(x)) = y where f(x) is unknown).
• Fixed failure to object to malformed sentences caused by misunderstanding of the punctuation convention about quoted text ending sentences.
• Fixed failure to object to names of things or rooms containing literal double-quoted text (which then failed to compile through I6).
• Fixed failure to object to negative assertions in the form "The P is not X.", where P is a property taking a value.

Mac OS X app

• (Mac OS X only) Support for OS 10.3.9 restored.
• (Mac OS X only) Build number now correct in Finder's Information window for the application file.