I7: implicitly repeating through indexed texts

[Gorobay]

@ektemple

You might want to consider whether you need indexed texts at all; maybe a standard text would work? If your example reflects your actual code, there doesn’t appear to be much reason to use indexed texts (unless you wanted the player to be able to contribute her own translations). As a general rule, if you can specify the texts in advance or assemble them easily from other pieces, you don’t need indexed text.

Elsewhere in my code I compare snippets to these texts, and I think that means I need indexed texts. If texts work too, are they better?

@Skinny Mike

Gorobay, I’m assuming you’re using indexed text because nouns in German (“Apfel”) must be capitalized. What specifically are you trying to do?

The code I gave above was just an example. My actual game has nothing to do with translations; it was just the first simple example I could think of. Specifically, I am cobbling together my own parser to deal with references to nonexistent but possible things, so I need to process the player’s input.

@Skinny Mike

Also, I’m curious as to why:

@Gorobay

I would like to avoid “A thing has a list of indexed texts called the dictionary.” if possible.

I would prefer to be able to say ““pomme” translates the apple.” in one part of the source, and ““Apfel” translates the apple.” in a different part. With a single property I would have to declare everything at once. If there is something that allows me to extend lists (e.g. "The thesaurus of the apple (extended) is {“manzana”}.) I would use that.

Skinny Mike, the code you posted looks useful; thank you. Is there a way I expand it to allow multiple words? I have tried “Word-saying is an action applying to words. Understand “say [words]” as word-saying.” but that does not seem to work.