> >A good idea, but what's wrong with raif? The volume is easily
> >manageable, and none of the TADS folk or nonprogrammers are yelling for
> >us to stop. :)
>
> It is certainly an option to discuss the Z-machine here, but there
> are two reasons why I prefer a mailing list:
>
> (1) There are probably only about 10-15 people interested in the
> Z-machine internals; mainly authors of interpreters, compilers, and
> other tools.
>
> (2) The questions discussed are very specific. For example: What
> should the positions of the windows and their cursor positions of the
> V6 Z-machine be after a screen resize? Or: What is should the effect
> be of two consecutive Z-characters 5 in a Z-string? Or: Is colour
> number -1 ever used in Infocom games?
>
> For these reasons I thought it best not to bother the 'general public'
> with these issues, but use the light-weight mailing list device.
I'm not an author of an interpreter, compiler, or other tool, but I am a user
of Inform and am thus interested in the capabilities and restrictions of the
Z-code it produces, and the interpreters which handle this code.
The questions discussed *are* very specific, but also are not so complex or
obscure that they're totally alien to me -- I have a fairly good idea of
what's being discussed.
So, as one of the "general (but interested) public" I'd prefer it if the
discussion was kept in raif. After all, this sort of thing is a part of the
purpose of raif anyway, and as Steve says, the volume is easily manageable.
-- Jools Arnold jools@arnod.demon.co.uk