Hooray, a new Inform! Time to spend hours getting our existing games to compile! It’s a yearly ritual. 
My first big stumbling block is this bit of code, used heavily in Hoosegow (and likely Rover and other games):
if the action-name part of the current action is:
– the playing action:
– the asking it for action:
…
Error is:
In the sentence ‘if the action-name part of the current action is begin’ , it looks as if you intend ‘action-name part of the current action’ to be a description, but an action name cannot be an object, so this must be incorrect.
I was trying to match one of these phrases:
- if (action-name part of the current action - word value) is:
- if (action-name part of the current action is - a condition):
This was what I found out:
action-name part of the current action = an object matching a description
action-name part of the current action is = something unrecognised