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<ul class="crumbs"><li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="../compiler.html">Inform7</a></li><li><b>runtime</b></li></ul>
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<p class="purpose">Generating runtime support code for resources needed in Inform texts. 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 runtime 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">Runtime 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: Emission</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Emitting Inter code ready for the code-generator.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Hierarchy</span></a> -
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Compilation Units</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To identify which parts of the source text come from which source (the main source text, the Standard Rules, or another extension).</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 3: Basics</span></p>
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<p class="chapterpurpose">Mainly low-level utilities for compiling code.</p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Fundamental Constants</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Inter constants for, say, extremal number values, which depend on the target we are compiling to, and are generally low-level in nature.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Use Options at Run Time</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To give certain use options a presence at run-time.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Extension Files at Run Time</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To provide the credits routines.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Inform 6 Inclusions</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To include Inform 6 code almost verbatim in the output, as instructed by low-level Inform 7 sentences.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Inform 6 template language, or I6T for short, is a notation for expressing low-level code in Inter.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 4: Literals</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Literal Patterns at Run Time</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Compiled code to print and parse values expressed as literals.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">In this section we compile text constants.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">In this section we compile text with substitutions.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Responses</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">In this section we keep track of response texts.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile string constants and comments.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">In this section we compile I6 arrays for constant lists arising from braced literals.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 5: Miscellany</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Runtime Support for Kinds</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile I6 material needed at runtime to enable kinds to function as they should.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To write support code for the Standard Library's "group together" phrases.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile run-time support for rules.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Activities</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To write support code for activities.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Equations Support</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile unique identifiers for equations.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">When the run-time code needs to borrow a global variable for a while.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile run-time support for nonlocal variables.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile run-time support for properties.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile run-time support for measurement adjectives.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To feed the hierarchy of instances and their property values into Inter.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile run-time support for instances.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">A plugin which maintains run-time-accessible linked lists of instances of kinds, in order to speed up loops; and instance counts within kinds, in order to speed up relation storage; and the object-kind hierarchy, in order to speed up run-time checking of the type safety of property usage.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile run-time support for adjective definitions.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Nametags provide for a more contextual parsing of nouns, allowing them to be given in an inexact verbal form.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To provide run-time access to verbs and their conjugations.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Relations at Run Time</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Relations need both storage and support code at runtime.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile run-time data structures holding tables.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To keep track of the state of things so that it will be possible in future to ask questions concerning the past.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 6: World Model</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Code to support rules like "At 12:03AM: ...".</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Compiling code to manage scene changes at run-time.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Filters are used to require nouns to have specific kinds or attributes, or to have specific scoping rules: they correspond to Inform 6's |noun=Routine| and |scope=Routine| tokens. Though these are quite different concepts in I6, their common handling seems natural in I7.</span></p>
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<span class="sectionpurpose">To compile I6 general parsing routines (GPRs) and/or |parse_name| properties as required by the I7 grammar.</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 9: Multimedia</span></p>
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<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 10: Testing</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Showme Command</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">A plugin to provide some support for the SHOWME testing command.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Test Scripts</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">A rudimentary but useful testing system built in to IF produced by Inform, allowing short sequences of commands to be concisely noted in the source text and tried out in the Inform application using the TEST command.</span></p>
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<spon class="sectiontitle">Internal Test Cases</span></a> -
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<span class="sectionpurpose">Handling requests to compile internal tests.</span></p>
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