Re: Inform: Why the limitations?


9 Dec 1995 13:16:03 GMT

In article BAA13729@guava.ucs.indiana.edu, "Sam Hulick" <shulick@guava.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>
>Unix Inform 5.5 (v1502/a)
>1:#########################################################
>line 31: Error: All 48 attributes already declared
>
>..... and...
>
>Unix Inform 5.5 (v1502/a)
>1:#########################################################
>line 43: Error: All 62 properties already declared
>
>Why? Why can't we bump these up with something like $MAX_ATTR or
>$MAX_PROP on the command line? Why this limitation? Realistically,
>there AREN'T a lot of attributes/properties you can alias, because they
>are almost all already aliased, or unusable on rooms or items. For
>example, if I wanted to make an Attribute "small" to set on objects,
>abou the only thing I could alias it off of is the 'visited' attrib. If
>it's this limited, why restrict to only 48 attributes and 62 properties?
>

The limitation is not in the compiler but in the story-file format
defined by Infocom. (I think this is clearly pointed out in
the Designer's Manual.)

-- Bjorn Gustavsson