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AIF Framework for Inform 7
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Consent in 6L38 #5

Closed vblm closed 9 years ago

vblm commented 9 years ago

The Consent extension fails to compile with the following error:

In Part 1 - Consent Rules in the extension Consent by Fictitious Frode:

Problem. The sentence 'Dummy-consenting-action is consensual' appears to say two things are the same - I am reading 'Dummy-consenting-action' and 'consensual' as two different things, and therefore it makes no sense to say that one is the other: it would be like saying that 'Aeschylus is Euripides'. It would be all right if the second thing were the name of a kind, perhaps with properties: for instance 'Underworld is a lighted room' says that something called Underworld exists and that it is a 'room', which is a kind I know about, combined with a property called 'lighted' which I also know about.

FictitiousFrode commented 9 years ago

Ok, this one is a bit puzzling, as that sentence was put there explicitly to make it compile. As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell Inform that something describes an action without actually describing it. It seems as the error is as "simple" as a last-minute rename from Dummy-action-consenting to Dummy-consenting-action has left Inform confused about it being a verb.