Direct contradiction in Inform

Authoring Inform 7
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I wrote this line:

There is an open door between Foyer and Hallway called the Marble Door.

And I got this problem message:

Problem. You wrote ‘There is an open door between Foyer and Hallway called the Marble Door’ : but I can only make ‘a something called whatever’ when the something is a kind I know, possibly qualified with adjectives. For instance, ‘an open door called the Marble Door’ is fine because ‘door’ is the name of a kind and ‘open’ is an adjective which means something for doors. But ‘a grand archway called the Great Gates’ would not normally mean anything to me, because ‘archway’ is not one of the standard kinds in Inform. (Try consulting the Kinds index.)

And I be like … whu?

Has anyone else had problems like this?

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Where are you getting that ‘between’ syntax from? That’s not how you define doors afaik, so Inform is reading it as something like

There is an open door ashjdklahf sfjfgsdh skhfjkjjhh called the Marble Door.

Look at 3.12: Doors for the list of accepted phrases to define doors.

3

Thanks, but what does “afaik” mean?

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“As far as I know” :slight_smile: