Trying to learn about conversations.

[wgm003]

I have been reading Jim Aikin’s excelent Inform 7 Handbook with much sucess. Now, taking from page 162 I have coded:

Quizzing it about is an action applying to one thing and one visible thing. Understand “ask [someone] about [any thing]” and “quiz [someone] about [any thing]” as quizzing it about.

Informing it about is an action applying to one thing and one visible thing. Understand “tell [someone] about [sny thing]” and "inform [someone] about [any thing] as informing it about.

The compiler returns the following:

Problem. You wrote ‘Quizzing it about is an action applying to one thing and one visible thing’ : but that seems to be an action already existing, so it cannot be redefined now. If you would like to reconfigure an action in the standard set - for instance if you prefer ‘unlocking’ to apply to only one thing, not two - create a new action for what you need (‘keyless unlocking’, perhaps) and then change the grammar to use the new action rather than the old (‘Understand “unlock [something]” as keyless unlocking.’).

See the manual: 12.7 > New actions

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Problem. You wrote ‘Informing it about is an action applying to one thing and one visible thing’ : again, that seems to be an action already existing.

Does anybody have an idea what is going on? I have searched my text for duplicate statements but can not find any.

Greg

[capmikee]

Are you using any of Eric Eve’s conversation extensions? Those actions are already defined there.

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

Are you including any extensions?

[wgm003]

As usual, you guys have the answer.

Greg