Build 5Z71
Graham Nelson
Inform 7 PDF
(168pp, 478KB)
The core compiler in a natural-language design system for interactive fiction.
Artistic License 2.0
Appendix A: The Standard Rules (168pp, 478KB) |
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| This is the body of Inform 7 source text automatically included with every project compiled, and which defines most of what end users see as the Inform language. | ||
SR0 - Preamble (A/sr0: 3pp, 69KB) |
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The titling line and rubric, use options and a few other technicalities before the Standard Rules get properly started. |
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SR1 - Physical World Model (A/sr1: 18pp, 179KB) |
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Verbal descriptions of spatial relationships; the hierarchy of kinds of object, and their properties. |
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SR2 - Variables and Rulebooks (A/sr2: 18pp, 135KB) |
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The global variables and those built-in rulebooks which do not belong either to specific actions or to specific activities. |
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SR3 - Activities (A/sr3: 12pp, 93KB) |
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The built-in activities and their default stock of rules; the locale description mechanism. |
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SR4 - Actions (A/sr4: 76pp, 170KB) |
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The standard stock of actions supplied with Inform, along with the rules which define them; and the Understand grammar which corresponds to them. |
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SR5 - Phrase Definitions (A/sr5: 40pp, 148KB) |
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The phrases making up the Inform language, and in terms of which all other phrases and rules are defined; and the final sign-off of the Standard Rules extension, including its minimal documentation. |
