The first thing you need to understand about Inform is

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

@Dannii

There’s no reason someone couldn’t make an extension giving more conventional programming syntaxes for most of I7’s standard library.

There isn’t even a reason someone hasn’t already done it!

Code: Inform 7 for the rest of us

Inform 7 has historically been less than accessible to programmers of traditional programming languages. For instance, suppose one were using the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find primes, as one does. Idiomatic Inform 7 might go something like: The limit is initially 100. Divides exactly relates a number to various numbers. The verb to factor means the divides exactly relation. Definition: a number is known to be a product rather than known to be prime if a number relates to it by the divides e…

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