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<ul class="crumbs"><li><a href="../webs.html">&#9733;</a></li><li><a href="index.html">building</a></li><li><a href="index.html#1">Chapter 1: Architecture</a></li><li><b>Package Types</b></li></ul><p class="purpose">To manage the different types of packages emitted by Inform.</p>
<ul class="toc"><li><a href="#SP1">&#167;1. Package types</a></li></ul><hr class="tocbar">
<p class="inwebparagraph"><a id="SP1"></a><b>&#167;1. Package types. </b>Inter code is a nested hierarchy of "packages", which can be assigned "types".
Inter requires two types to exist, <code class="display"><span class="extract">_plain</span></code> and <code class="display"><span class="extract">_code</span></code>, and leaves the rest
to the user (i.e., us) to define as we see fit. In fact Inform generates
packages of slightly over 50 different types.
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<p class="inwebparagraph">At run time, package types are pointers to the inter symbol which defined them,
but this is not a convenient way to refer to them in the Inform source code.
Instead we use the following function:
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<span class="identifier">inter_symbol</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="functiontext">PackageTypes::get</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">inter_tree</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">I</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">text_stream</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">name</span><span class="plain">) {</span>
<span class="identifier">inter_symbols_table</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">scope</span><span class="plain"> = </span><span class="identifier">Inter::Tree::global_scope</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">I</span><span class="plain">);</span>
<span class="identifier">inter_symbol</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">ptype</span><span class="plain"> = </span><span class="identifier">Inter::SymbolsTables::symbol_from_name</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">scope</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">name</span><span class="plain">);</span>
<span class="reserved">if</span><span class="plain"> (</span><span class="identifier">ptype</span><span class="plain"> == </span><span class="identifier">NULL</span><span class="plain">) {</span>
<span class="reserved">int</span><span class="plain"> </span><span class="identifier">enclose</span><span class="plain"> = </span><span class="identifier">TRUE</span><span class="plain">;</span>
&lt;<span class="cwebmacro">Decide if this package type is to be enclosing</span> <span class="cwebmacronumber">1.1</span>&gt;<span class="plain">;</span>
<span class="identifier">ptype</span><span class="plain"> = </span><span class="functiontext">Produce::new_symbol</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">scope</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">name</span><span class="plain">);</span>
<span class="functiontext">Produce::guard</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">Inter::PackageType::new_packagetype</span><span class="plain">(</span>
<span class="functiontext">Site::package_types</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">I</span><span class="plain">), </span><span class="identifier">ptype</span><span class="plain">,</span>
<span class="plain">0, </span><span class="identifier">NULL</span><span class="plain">));</span>
<span class="reserved">if</span><span class="plain"> (</span><span class="identifier">enclose</span><span class="plain">) </span><span class="functiontext">Produce::annotate_symbol_i</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">ptype</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">ENCLOSING_IANN</span><span class="plain">, 1);</span>
<span class="plain">}</span>
<span class="reserved">return</span><span class="plain"> </span><span class="identifier">ptype</span><span class="plain">;</span>
<span class="plain">}</span>
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<p class="endnote">The function PackageTypes::get is used in <a href="#SP2">&#167;2</a>, 1/bs (<a href="1-bs.html#SP2">&#167;2</a>), 1/hl (<a href="1-hl.html#SP3">&#167;3</a>, <a href="1-hl.html#SP4">&#167;4</a>, <a href="1-hl.html#SP5">&#167;5</a>, <a href="1-hl.html#SP6">&#167;6</a>), 1/pck (<a href="1-pck.html#SP11">&#167;11</a>, <a href="1-pck.html#SP15">&#167;15</a>, <a href="1-pck.html#SP18">&#167;18</a>, <a href="1-pck.html#SP20">&#167;20</a>), 3/pi (<a href="3-pi.html#SP3">&#167;3</a>).</p>
<p class="inwebparagraph"><a id="SP1_1"></a><b>&#167;1.1. </b>Most package types are "enclosing". Suppose that Inform is compiling
something to go into the package, but finds that it needs to compile something
else in order to do so &mdash; for example, it's compiling code to set a variable
to be equal to a literal piece of text, which must itself be compiled as a
small array. Where does Inform put that array? If the current package is
"enclosing", then Inform puts it into the package itself; and if not, then
into the package holding the current package, if that in turn is "enclosing";
and so on.
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<p class="inwebparagraph">It seems tidy to make all packages enclosing, and in fact (after much
experiment) Inform nearly does that. But <code class="display"><span class="extract">_code</span></code> packages have to be an
exception, because the Inter specification doesn't allow constants (and
therefore arrays) to be defined inside <code class="display"><span class="extract">_code</span></code> packages.
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<p class="macrodefinition"><code class="display">
&lt;<span class="cwebmacrodefn">Decide if this package type is to be enclosing</span> <span class="cwebmacronumber">1.1</span>&gt; =
</code></p>
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<span class="reserved">if</span><span class="plain"> (</span><span class="identifier">Str::eq</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">name</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">I</span><span class="string">"_code"</span><span class="plain">)) </span><span class="identifier">enclose</span><span class="plain"> = </span><span class="identifier">FALSE</span><span class="plain">;</span>
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<p class="endnote">This code is used in <a href="#SP1">&#167;1</a>.</p>
<p class="inwebparagraph"><a id="SP2"></a><b>&#167;2. </b>Symbol lookups by name are fast, but not instant, so we might some day
want to optimise this by cacheing the result:
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<span class="identifier">inter_symbol</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="functiontext">PackageTypes::function</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">inter_tree</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">I</span><span class="plain">) {</span>
<span class="reserved">return</span><span class="plain"> </span><span class="functiontext">PackageTypes::get</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">I</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">I</span><span class="string">"_function"</span><span class="plain">);</span>
<span class="plain">}</span>
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<p class="endnote">The function PackageTypes::function is used in 1/pck (<a href="1-pck.html#SP19">&#167;19</a>).</p>
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