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0001044

Core Inform

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public

2012-11-02 03:10

2014-05-07 07:33

Reporter

curiousdannii

Assigned To

graham

Priority

normal

Severity

mild

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

fixed

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OS Version

Product Version

6G60

Target Version

Fixed in Version

6L02

Summary

0001044: Trying actions doesn't reset the meta variable

Description

Trying actions doesn't reset the meta variable. Potentially this is by design, but I can't think of a reason why it would be. If you deliberately try a non-out-of-world action from an out-of-world action it should work.

(When I say reset I mean push/pull the meta var like the others are.)

Minimal Source Text To Reproduce

There is a room.
Here is a man called Bob.
First carry out quitting the game:
	try Bob looking.
Test me with "quit".

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Effect

(serious/mild) Game compiles but misbehaves

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Notes
(0001921) zarf (developer) 2012-11-04 08:52	My sense is that this has never been supported (although there's no documentation about it). The meta flag has some effects down in the action-tracking machinery that might make this tricky. Not sure. Note that even if this is supported, there will be no "every turn" phase for the command (because the top-level action is meta). That might screw up somebody's invariant.

(0001922) EmacsUser (manager) 2012-11-04 15:59	meta is saved, just in the local smeta, rather than on the stack (I think this was a fix in 6E59). But the flag isn't subsequently cleared, so it's only possible to properly try a out-of-world action from an in-world one, not vice versa. I think I'll confirm this, despite the injunction in WI 12.15, as the fix is only one otherwise innocuous line added to TryAction.

(0002391) graham (administrator) 2014-01-27 10:25	I've accepted this, though I actually chose to fix it in ActionVariablesNotTypeSafe, which sets the meta flag when needed but did not previously clear it when not. I think it's legal to try an in-world action from an out-of-world one (and indeed GONEAR does this), but really, at your own risk.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2012-11-02 03:10	curiousdannii	New Issue
2012-11-02 04:52	curiousdannii	Description Updated	View Revisions
2012-11-04 08:52	zarf	Note Added: 0001921
2012-11-04 15:59	EmacsUser	Note Added: 0001922
2012-11-04 15:59	EmacsUser	Reproducibility	have not tried => always
2012-11-04 15:59	EmacsUser	Status	new => confirmed
2014-01-27 10:25	graham	Note Added: 0002391
2014-01-27 10:25	graham	Status	confirmed => resolved
2014-01-27 10:25	graham	Resolution	open => fixed
2014-01-27 10:25	graham	Assigned To	=> graham
2014-05-07 07:32	jmcgrew	Fixed in Version	=> 6L02
2014-05-07 07:33	jmcgrew	Status	resolved => closed

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