IFWiki:Code Compare project
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This page is about the Code Compare project on IFWiki. The aim of this project is to compare the major IF authoring systems to each other.
Rough Notes
- The article prefix CC: will be reserved for the use of pages in the Code Compare project, although it's doubtful we'll actually need to ever use it.
- The Code Compare project will need to coordinate its efforts with every other authoring system project (eg: the ADRIFT project, the Inform 7 project, the TADS 3 project, etc.)
Code Compare Templates
- The initial focus of the Code Compare project will be to create a set of templates to be used at the bottom of relevant articles. These templates will each associate a programming or IF concept with the articles that deal with that concept in each particular authoring system. This is perhaps best illustrated with some examples:
| Code Compare: Room | |
| ADRIFT 4: | The Room dialog box (Add a Room/Edit Room) |
| Hugo: | The room class |
| Inform 6: | The Object class |
| Inform 7: | The room kind |
| TADS 2: | The room class |
| TADS 3: | The Room class |
| Code Compare: Player character | |
| ADRIFT 4: | The player variable and the Amend Player dialog box |
| Inform 6: | The player variable and the selfobj object |
| Inform 7: | The player variable and the yourself object |
| TADS 2: | The basicMe class |
| TADS 3: | The gPlayerChar macro and the Actor class |
- Code Compare templates should all begin with "CC", eg: {{CC room}}, {{CC player-character}}, {{CC if-statement}}, {{CC clothing}}, etc.
- Code Compare templates should all be stored in the Code Compare templates category.
- Problem: Currently, CC templates use the phrase "(not pre-defined)" if the concept isn't handled by the authoring system's language or library, e.g.: see Template:CC readable. This is temporary. We will want to somehow indicate how an author encodes a concept that isn't pre-defined by the authoring system.
- Solution: add a "default:" row at the bottom of the template's table to briefly say what the default strateg(ies) are.
Links
External links to similar projects:
- Cloak of Darkness by Roger Firth is a small sample game created to be ported to as many IF authoring systems as possible.
- The Rosetta Code wiki is about comparing all programming languages to each other. As of 2010, they have an Inform 7 category.