Inform: Why the limitations?


Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:06:48 -0500 (EST)

Unix Inform 5.5 (v1502/a)
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line 31: Error: All 48 attributes already declared

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Unix Inform 5.5 (v1502/a)
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line 43: Error: All 62 properties already declared

Why? Why can't we bump these up with something like $MAX_ATTR or
$MAX_PROP on the command line? Why this limitation? Realistically,
there AREN'T a lot of attributes/properties you can alias, because they
are almost all already aliased, or unusable on rooms or items. For
example, if I wanted to make an Attribute "small" to set on objects,
abou the only thing I could alias it off of is the 'visited' attrib. If
it's this limited, why restrict to only 48 attributes and 62 properties?

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