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<ul class="crumbs"><li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="../compiler.html">Inform7 Modules</a></li><li><b>assertions</b></li></ul>
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<p class="purpose">Dealing with top-level declarations in Inform source text. This is version 1.</p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Preliminaries</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">What This Module Does</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">An overview of the assertions module's role and abilities.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 1: Configuration and Control</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Assertions Module</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Setting up the use of this module.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 2: Top-Level Declarations</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Passing three times through top-level declarations and assertion sentences.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Booting Verbs</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">In Inform even verbs are created with natural language sentences, but this process has to start somewhere.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Passes through Major Nodes</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To manage the overall process of traversing the parse tree for top-level declarations and assertion sentences.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To keep track of the current object and subject of discussion.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Classifying Sentences</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To work out the verbs used and to diagram sentences in the source.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 3: Requests</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Sentences, often imperative, which have special meanings.</p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences for changing what goes into the debugging log.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences for setting exotic plural forms of nouns.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Three unrelated senses of "X translates into Y as Z" sentences.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences for creating new use options.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences for setting compilation options.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences for requesting unit tests or providing test scripts.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences declaring that tables amount to massed groups of assertions.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences for listing named rules in particular rulebooks.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences for creating new relations.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences creating new either/or properties.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Special sentences for creating new verbs.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 4: Assertions</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Turning regular assertion sentences into propositions about the model world.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Name Resolution</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To resolve abbreviated or ambiguous nouns in context of their headings.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Refine Parse Tree</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To determine which subjects are referred to by noun phrases such as "the table" or "a paper cup" found in assertion sentences.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">The Creator</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">This is where all objects, kinds of object, named values, kinds of value and global variables are made.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Assertions</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To infer facts about the model world, or take other action, based on sentences asserted as being true in the source text.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">New Property Assertions</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">When regular assertion sentences create properties.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Property Knowledge</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">This section draws inferences from assertions which seem to be about the properties of things, independent of their location.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Relation Knowledge</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">This section draws inferences about the relationships between objects or values.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Assemblies</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To build the complex multi-object assemblies which result from allowing the source text to say things like "in every room is a vehicle".</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To keep track of a dangerous form of super-assertion called an implication, which is allowed to generalise about properties.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">The second of the three sources of propositions to conjure with: those which arise from subtrees constructed by the A-parser.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 5: Basic Adjectives and Relations</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Predicates for the calculus module to use.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Kind Predicates Revisited</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To define how the kind predicates behave in the Inform language.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">The Adjectival Predicates</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To define the predicates connected to limguistic adjectives.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To define the predicates causing instances to be created.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To define how equality behaves in the Inform language.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To define the binary predicates corresponding to numerical comparisons.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To define the universal relation, which can apply and therefore subsumes all other relations.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Explicit Relations</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To draw inferences from the relations created explicitly by the source text.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Adjective Meanings</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">One individual meaning which an adjective can have.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 6: Table Data</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Inform's preferred data structure for small initialised databases.</p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To manage the named columns which appear in tables.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To manage and compile tables, which are two-dimensional arrays with associative look-up facilities provided at run-time.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To define the binary predicates corresponding to table columns, and which determine whether a given value is listed in that column.</span></p>
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