[IF7] Changing player class during play

[numberQ]

I’m trying to make a class system in my IF that supports changing class throughout the game. I tried to create an action that instantly changes the player’s class for debugging purposes, but I’m getting an error. Here’s my relevant code:

[code]Class is a kind of value. The classes are prisoner, fighter, thief, and mage. The player has a class. The player is a prisoner.

Changing to is an action applying to a class.

Understand “change to [class]” and “change class to [class]” as changing to.

Check changing to:
if the noun is the class of the player:
say “You are already a [the noun]!” instead.

Carry out changing to:
now the class of the player is the noun.

Report changing to:
say “You are now a [the noun].”

The description of the player is “Class: [class of the player]”
[/code]

And here’s the error I’m getting:

Problem. In the sentence ‘now the class of the player is the noun’ , it looks as if you intend ‘class of the player is the noun’ to be a condition, but that would mean comparing two kinds of value which cannot mix - a class and an object - so this must be incorrect.

I was trying to match this phrase:

now (class of the player is the noun - a condition)

This was what I found out:

class of the player is the noun = a condition

If I go through and change every instance of “the noun” to “the class”, fixing the comparison mismatch, I get this error:

Problem. You wrote ‘now the class of the player is the class’ : but the kind of something is fixed, and cannot be changed during play with a ‘now’.

See the manual: 8.11 > Now…

So is there any way to change the kind of something? Or am I going about this the wrong way entirely?

[Draconis (Daniel Stelzer)]

For actions applying to a value rather than an object, you need to refer to “the [type] understood”. In this case, that would be the class understood.

[numberQ]

Thanks, that worked!