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<h1><a href="../overview.html">
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<ul><li><a href="../overview.html">home</a></li>
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</ul><h2>Compiler</h2><ul>
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<li><a href="../structure.html">structure</a></li>
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<ul class="crumbs"><li><a href="../overview.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="../inform7n.html">Inform7</a></li><li><a href="index.html">if</a></li><li><a href="index.html#P">Preliminaries</a></li><li><b>What This Module Does</b></li></ul></div>
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<p class="purpose">An overview of the if module's role and abilities.</p>
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<ul class="toc"><li><a href="P-wtmd.html#SP1">§1. Prerequisites</a></li><li><a href="P-wtmd.html#SP2">§2. So many plugins</a></li></ul><hr class="tocbar">
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP1" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>§1. Prerequisites. </b>The if module is a part of the Inform compiler toolset. It is presented as a
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literate program or "web". Before diving in:
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</p>
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<ul class="items"><li>(a) It helps to have some experience of reading webs: see <a href="../../../inweb/docs/index.html" class="internal">inweb</a> for more.
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</li><li>(b) The module is written in C, in fact ANSI C99, but this is disguised by the
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fact that it uses some extension syntaxes provided by the <a href="../../../inweb/docs/index.html" class="internal">inweb</a> literate
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programming tool, making it a dialect of C called InC. See <a href="../../../inweb/docs/index.html" class="internal">inweb</a> for
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full details, but essentially: it's C without predeclarations or header files,
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and where functions have names like <span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">Tags::add_by_name</span></span> rather than just <span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">add_by_name</span></span>.
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</li><li>(c) This module uses other modules drawn from the compiler (see <a href="../structure.html" class="internal">structure</a>), and also
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uses a module of utility functions called <a href="../../../inweb/docs/foundation-module/index.html" class="internal">foundation</a>.
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For more, see <a href="../../../inweb/docs/foundation-module/P-abgtf.html" class="internal">A Brief Guide to Foundation (in foundation)</a>.
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP2" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>§2. So many plugins. </b>This module consists entirely of plugins, and when they are all inactive,
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as for example with a Basic Inform project, it's as if the module does not exist
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at all: it does nothing.
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</p>
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<p class="commentary">The module is divided into four substantive parts, which form Chapters 2 to 5,
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and are largely independent of each other:
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<ul class="items"><li>● <a href="2-bd.html" class="internal">Chapter 2: Bibliographic Data</a> is a single plugin, "bibliographic data".
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This manages metadata on projects, notably the Interactive Fiction ID, and
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follows a number of Internet standards for such things. <a href="2-ri.html" class="internal">Release Instructions</a>
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collates release details included in the source text, and acts as a bridge to
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the releasing agent <a href="../inblorb/index.html" class="internal">inblorb</a>.
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</li><li>● <a href="3-sm.html" class="internal">Chapter 3: Space and Time</a>, by contrast, is made up of many individual
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plugins, which can independently be active or not: collectively they form the
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usual model world for interactive fiction, but it's possible, for example,
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to remove the concept of a geographical map, or of scenes, and still have
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the rest.
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</li><li>● <a href="4-ap.html" class="internal">Chapter 4: Actions</a> is the single plugin "actions", which provides a
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framework for how agents in the world model can perform simple tasks such as
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picking things up, or going from place to place.
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</li><li>● <a href="5-pp.html" class="internal">Chapter 5: Command Parser</a> is the single plugin "parsing", and
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provides for command parsing. Projects using other mechanisms for having
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the reader interact with them do not need this, and can deactivate the plugin.
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