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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Number Nouns - Newbie Question #1
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In article <wlORR3m00WB20fSNUC@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Andrew C. Plotkin"
<erkyrath+@CMU.EDU> wrote:

[snip]

>I left in an extra parenthesis, as you noticed, and then fell victim
>to C Hacker's Disease. When you use a function call in an Inform
>condition, you have to compare the result with zero, even if the
>function logically returns a boolean value.
>
>Concerted efforts by many of us (and our squads of truncheon-armed
>goons) have convinced Graham to make Inform 6 behave more sensibly in
>this matter.

Oops.  I just assumed.  The C similarities just lead me down the
primrose path.  Shall I loan you a nightstick or two?  :-)


Thanks for the help.
Ken

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