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<p class="purpose">The type system used by Inform. This is version 1.</p>
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<p><a name="1"></a><spon class="chaptertitle">Chapter 1: Starting Up</span></p>
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<p><a href="1-km.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Kinds Module</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">Setting up the use of this module.</span></p>
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<p><a name="2"></a><spon class="chaptertitle">Chapter 2: Kinds</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-itk.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Introduction to Kinds</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">A general introduction to kinds.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-knd.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Kinds</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">To build tree structures which represent Inform's universe of kinds.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-kc.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Kind Checking</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">To test whether two kinds are equivalent to each other, or failing that, whether they are compatible with each other.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-kc2.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Kind Constructors</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">The mechanism by which Inform records the characteristics of different kinds.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-ki.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Kind Interpreter</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">To read in details of the built-in kinds from template files, setting them up ready for use.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-uk.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Using Kinds</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">To determine the characteristics of different kinds, enabling them to be used in practice.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-dk.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Describing Kinds</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">Translating kind structures to and from textual or run-time descriptions.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-dmn.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Dimensions</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">To keep a small database indicating the physical dimensions of numerical values, and how they combine: for instance, allowing us to specify that a length times a length is an area.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-fv.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Floating-Point Values</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">To cope with promotions from integer to floating-point arithmetic.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-sav.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Scaled Arithmetic Values</span></a> -
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<span class="purpose">To manage the scalings and offsets used when storing arithmetic values at run-time, and/or when using scaled units to refer to them.</span></p>
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