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From: donot.fooled.be@io.org (Armina Blink Bonk Blink Bouh Boink Boink)
Subject: Re: [Inform 603] seeming bugs?
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 00:51:45 GMT

Fri, 31 May 1996 12:38:32 -0400,
"Andrew C. Plotkin" <erkyrath+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>There is a section in the new Inform manual which gives the correct
>order of things. At this point, of course, I have a working program

That's true, way at the end, in that "what order..." appendix (?), but it
doesn't mention "property" and "attribute", specifically. I suppose one
might deduce from it saying "but you may not yet define global variables,
objects or routines", but I didn't. Me dumb.

>Uh, in Inform 5, I mean. I haven't dared to try 6.

The thing is that my apparently "out of order" property declaration works
fine with inform 5.x, and also with 6 if i do not use the "module" method of
compiling. I guess it's something to do with the different compilation
procedure, which makes it more strict. I have no doubt it's very logical
and possibly there may not even be any voodoo involved!

>(No, it's not something that makes sense to C people. You can Infer
>the correct order of things by carefully studying the syntactic rules
>of Replace, attribute/property/function definition, and so on.)

That's a bit intense for widdle owd me. (-;

But... working now, so me happy.

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