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*** Understanding kinds of value
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(Names of objects change with player's diction; Straw Into Gold)
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Creating a Rumpelstiltskin character who is always referred to as "dwarf", "guy", "dude", or "man" -- depending on which the player last used -- until the first time the player refers to him as "Rumpelstiltskin".
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{*} "Straw Into Gold"
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The Cell is a room. Rumpelstiltskin is an improper-named man in the Cell. Rumpelstiltskin can be identified or unidentified. Rumpelstiltskin is unidentified.
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R-name is a kind of value. The R-names are dwarf, guy, dude, and man-thing. Rumpelstiltskin has an R-name. Understand "[R-name]" as Rumpelstiltskin.
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Our example is slightly complicated by the fact that "man" is a name already known to Inform, so we can't re-use it as a kind of value. This is possible to work around, though:
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{**}Understand "man" as man-thing.
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Now we borrow from the Activities chapter to look at the exact wording of the player's command:
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{**}After reading a command:
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if the player's command includes "[R-name]",
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now the R-name of Rumpelstiltskin is the R-name understood;
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if the player's command includes "Rumpelstiltskin":
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now Rumpelstiltskin is identified;
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now Rumpelstiltskin is proper-named.
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Rule for printing the name of Rumpelstiltskin when Rumpelstiltskin is unidentified:
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if the R-name of Rumpelstiltskin is man-thing:
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say "man";
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otherwise:
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say "[R-name]".
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Test me with "x dwarf / x guy / x dude / look / x rumpelstiltskin / look / x man".
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