This week’s prize, Bubbling Beaker Award® #10 is presented to @matt_weiner, who was at one point a very frequent contributor to the forum but has not been by for several years. (Honorable mention is given to @Skinny_Mike, who provided significant technical assistance at how and when does I7 guess which indirect article to use? - #19 by Skinny_Mike) Matt’s award-winning post concerns a method of improving Inform’s handling of irregular indefinite article selection in the context of conditional printed name output. The running example is a unicorn, which may or may not be honest – out-of-the box, I7 will prefer “an unicorn” and “a honest unicorn” when printing the name of this animal.
The code wasn’t quite perfected in the original post, but I’ve taken the liberty of updating and streamlining it a bit. Details will be given in a follow-up post.