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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Parsing Ambiguity???
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Andrew Clover (ajc@puppy.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin) wrote:

> > The compiler doesn't know that the "name" property is used for  matching
> > text descriptions to objects; the only special thing about it is  that
> > it take double-quoted dictionary words instead of single-quoted.

>  Does it yet allow double-quoted names to be used as well? 

What, where? Are you talking about Inform 6? I haven't used it, but I 
haven't heard that it treats single/double-quoting any different from 
Inform 5.

> I'm sure I've
> written code that uses double quotes here, and I'd be annoyed if it didn't
> work, because forcing single-quotes when everything else is double is just
> bobbins and cornish.

>  If double ain't allowed... it should be! (ISTR pestering Graham to do it
> some time ago, but who knows if he did...)

Again, where? Are you saying that the difference between single and 
double-quotes should be removed from Inform? It can't be (without some 
alternative); the difference between dictionary words and compressed 
strings is important.

--Z

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