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Andrew Merenbach wrote:
[...]

> > articles "Your" "your" "a",

[...]

> Hm.  This seems to work, but it causes an error (something like "@jin
>
> called...." or something like that).

That's weird.  I don't get that on the Frotz line.

Weirder, "@jin" is a Z-Machine instruction, "Jump if object a is a
direct child of b, i.e., if parent of a is b."  That's almost certainly
necessary for the Inform library to work, and shouldn't be an error, or
even reported as atypical.

Any idea as to the complete error message text?  Maybe it points to a
subtle bug lurking in either the library or the interpreter you're
using or some weird handling of "articles" that I've overlooked.


