Dynamic Predicates limited to two parameters got me thinking about ways to represent map-like datastructures in Dialog. (Since that’s the data structure I think most programmers would normally reach for to solve problems like the one in that post.) Anyways, here’s a snippet of Dialog that implement…

This looks quite interesting, ill definitely have to mess aroundcwitg this a bit when i get the chance. I’m curious if your first predicate can handle nested plists or if $v would onpy matvh the whole list? If it could not find a nestd $v do you thinkbit would be possible to create a predicate whoch…

As-is, looking up a key grabs the entire corresponding value. So, for example, ($plist = [#k1 100 #k2 [#k3 70]]) (plist $plist key #k2 has value $out) $out prints [#k3 70]. So a plist can contain a plist, and the lookup works just like it would for any other value. Sort of like a dict in python or…

I’m currently in the process of porting Graham nelson’s Curses to Dialog, based on various forms of release 16’s disassembly. I needed to implement Inform 6’s tasks, which in Curses are defined as constants to reference the task name and in turn refer to an array of scores. This can be represented a…

Quick note: when using the library, I found a small issue with the predicate that removes a key/value pair to the plist (needed for both removing key/value pairs and updating existing key/value pairs). %% This predicate, (plist $ without $ is $), outputs a plist with all %% instances of the corresp…

Well spotted - thanks for the correction! (And glad this idea has been useful… I haven’t actually needed it for a game of my own yet.) I’ve updated the original post with your suggestion, plus a few other stylistic changes I feel compelled to perform now that I’ve worked with Dialog for longer. (Mo…

If I’m using this code in a project, is this a good credit? (extension version) Plists by Ben Kirwin

It seems like the snippet fails to load now. Would it be ok if the extension was added to the dialog-extensions repository? plists.dg (2.1 KB)

Hmm, it looks like Borogrove is having trouble! Hopefully it’ll be back, but in any case, happy to contribute it to the repo. I’ll send a PR when I have a moment…

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Plists (maps / dicts) in Dialog

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bkirwi (Ben Kirwin) August 17, 2025, 1:01am 8

Sure!