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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Inform: Missing thing in new manual
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 05:02:31 GMT
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In article <199511201956.OAA11920@papaya.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Sam Hulick <shulick@papaya.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>Looking through the new manual, I figure I'd find something about #Stub,
>but I didn't.  How does it work?  Why is it that when I do this:
>
>#Stub CreditRoutine 0;
>
>then I define CreditRoutine() later, it complains about it being
>multiply defined??  What does the number mean after the routine name?

Grepping through my text copy. :) I find the following:

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xx These recondite directives exist, but not for public use:

      Default Dictionary Listsymbols Listdict Listverbs Lowstring Stub
      System_file Trace Btrace Etrace Ltrace Notrace Nobtrace Noetrace
      Noltrace

(all in the TM).  The one low-level directive which might be of practical use
is Abbreviate (see '28), an economy measure for enormous games.

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It seems that Stub is a pretty cryptic corner of Inform.  It will be 
documented in the Technical manual when it comes out (that's what "TM" is 
for).  If there is a Tech manual still at GMD, you might want to have a 
look at it, even though it's an older version.

/Steve
