Show number of items carried and max inform 7

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PS - You may also start wondering about things like, if the player’s wearing a hat, is that one of the things in the limit? What about in a backpack?

You’ll notice my code says ‘things carried by the player’. Carried is a particular definition, different to held, enclosed, and worn. I previously made a cheat sheet showing what items in what situations are scooped up by the different definitions:

Inform's World Model and the Player - cheat sheet

I remember I used to fall foul of using the wrong adjective when I was checking if the player ‘had’ some object about their person in a particular situation. Depending on whether it’s in your inventory, or you’re wearing it, or it’s part of you, or part of something in your inventory, or in a box in a bag… sometimes I’d write code testing for it, and I’d use the wrong test. To this end, I wrote this cheat sheet to nail down which things are where (this’ll make sense when you look at it). I made…

-Wade