... and furthermore, note that no sort of quotes are _required_. That is location p_room name Pink Room is the best notation. You only need quotes if you don't...
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damadbrit
Apr 1, 2002 6:14 pm
Hi (again) In a message dated 01/04/02 09:56:16 GMT Daylight Time, stevgrif@... writes Alan doesn't care about capitalisation of keywords -- even >...
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jdgsfjkd
Apr 4, 2002 3:38 pm
This site has some real good credit cards and will even find a card for you! check it out! http://apply4creditcard.com...
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thoni_dansare
May 2, 2002 7:07 am
Hi Friends! Finally the long darkness called winter is over, we have just celebrated the arrival of spring with bonfires and fireworks. This of course gives...
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anssi_r
May 2, 2002 10:35 am
Thank you very much Thomas! It looks really good. A question: Does the 'every' statement allow a script (when there is an actor incolved)? e.g. Every passerby...
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thoni_dansare
May 2, 2002 10:47 am
You are quick, Anssi! The goal is to have "EVERY" to allow definition of every aspect of an entity and that they should be inherited. So any feature, like...
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Greg Ewing
greg@...
May 2, 2002 10:53 pm
... That's okay, I'll just take it as a "happy autumn" instead. :-) Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of...
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edutec
ktqt1971
May 2, 2002 11:06 pm
Ah, so close and yet so far. It seems that the beta is Windows only -- or have I missed something? Are there plans for a Mac version?...
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anssi_r
May 3, 2002 11:18 am
Thanks for the reply Thomas. I am sure everything will be clear later on, but one question for now: still talking about scripts, if there is a script in an...
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thoni_dansare
May 3, 2002 2:45 pm
True. The pre-view is Windows only (I don't have a Mac with development capabilities...). But as I wrote I will publish sources soon. /Thomas ... From:...
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thoni_dansare
May 3, 2002 2:47 pm
Sure your questions make sense. When you want to manipulate or influence an instance (object, actor etc.) you always refer to the instance (THE), not the class...
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butlerhac
May 4, 2002 10:50 am
I suppose this inquiry could be forwarded to both Thomas Nilsson and Steve Griffiths: How will ALAN 3.0 handle the Proposed Standard Library 0.3.1? Can this...
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thoni_dansare
May 4, 2002 11:42 am
There will have to be a conversion of the library. Which could be done in a straight forward way, or be done to make more use of the object oriented features. ...
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stevgrif@...
May 4, 2002 10:09 pm
... Nilsson and ... Standard ... written? ... I was going to look at doing a quick translation of the library to v3 syntax in maybe a couple of weeks. That'll...
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butlerhac
May 5, 2002 12:01 am
Thank you, Thomas and Steve, for the info. I am looking forward to the "official"; version 3 release of ALAN/Standard Library. Good work, sirs. Sincerely, ...
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moodsoft_95928
May 18, 2002 5:45 am
Hello all, Just wanted to let everyone know that the project I started a project to make an editor especially for making ALAN based games. After 2 months of...
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alan-if@yahoogroups.com
May 18, 2002 10:06 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the alan-if group. File : / Looking for...
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sandsquish
May 25, 2002 6:19 pm
I don't want to put words in Thomas' mouth, but it looks like version 3 will be available fairly soon. Which got me to thinking ... One of the ways people...
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alan-if@yahoogroups.com
May 25, 2002 6:33 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the alan-if group: Do you think you would enter an ALAN programming competition, once version 3 of the...
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sgnz2002
May 26, 2002 10:09 pm
... Yes, I agree. It will be really good to have some more sample V3 code available. There's only the Saviour game at the moment. I 'finished' porting the...
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sandsquish
May 27, 2002 12:49 am
... <<It would be a good way to generate a bit more sample source code. A potential problem is, of course, that the code will not necessarily be _good_ example...
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Greg Ewing
greg@...
May 27, 2002 1:30 am
... Has anyone ever expressed an opinion that ALAN shouldn't be discussed on r.a.i-f? I can't remember it ever happening. If anyone ever did, I would just...
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Eric Mayer
ericgmayer
May 27, 2002 3:20 am
I've been working very sporadically on a small ALAN game for which V3 would've worked nicely but I was far enough along I didn't want to try and convert it....
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Greg Ewing
greg@...
May 27, 2002 5:31 am
... It's hard to tell what is really meant when someone describes a language as "C-like" or not. Often, I think, it just means "uses curly braces for block...
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stevgrif@...
May 27, 2002 6:00 pm
... [snip] ... Yes, I know there's atleast one Mac programmer contributing to this mailing list. And there's quite a few Alan writers who use Macintoshes...
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ktqt1971
May 27, 2002 11:57 pm
Inform is on the (in)famous 99-bottles site (http://99-bottles-of- beer.ls-la.net/i.html). Perhaps we should enter an Alan 3 (dare one say, Alan++) entry. ...
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stevgrif@...
May 28, 2002 12:35 am
... I wrote an Alan (v2.7 or 8) version and submitted it years ago but it never appeared on the site. Looks like the site has been revamped since I last...
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Greg Ewing
greg@...
May 28, 2002 12:45 am
... Yes -- I'm a Mac programmer! I think I missed your original question, though. How can I help? Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,...
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sandsquish
May 28, 2002 2:00 am
... <<Yes -- I'm a Mac programmer! I think I missed your original question, though. How can I help?>> I had just realized that Thomas Nilsson no longer did the...
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Greg Ewing
greg@...
May 28, 2002 2:03 am
... I'll be looking into it when a stable version becomes available... Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University...
