Inform 7 for Programmers

This page contains the text of Inform 7 for Programmers, a tutorial written by Ron Newcomb, 6 Jan 2009, build 5U92. The original single-page copy of this document can be found on the Plover.net website. A more recent version is linked to from the Ron Newcomb page of this wiki. See also: Inform 7.

Contents

• Part 1
  • In a Nutshell
  • Types, Variables, and Objects
  • Class And Prejudice
  • The Coding Imperative
  • Boolean Adjectives
• Part 2
  • Patterned Procedures
  • Functions Decide on a Value
  • Say Phrases
  • Sweet Relations
  • Rules of Thumb
• Part 3
  • Rulebooks: White-box Paradigm
  • Events are Actions
  • No Lights, No Camera, Just Action
  • Understanding Our Player, Our Parser
  • Time for a Scene
• Part 4
  • Arrays Have Been Tabled
  • Named Values Everywhere
  • T.E.X.T.
  • Precisely One Spoon-unit Of Sugar
  • Backstage Activities
• Part 4b
  • Time, Turns, and Tenses
  • Verbs of State and Verbs of Change
  • Present-Perfect Tense : has ever been true
  • Two Past Tenses : only for relation verbs on a case-by-case basis
  • Turns in a row, Times that started
  • The Future is Scheduled
• Part 5
  • Testing Commands
  • Indistinguishable Memory
  • Grammar Gotchas
  • Paradigm Leaning
  • To Hack... or not... to Hack?