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Actions with two arguments: a number and a thing

I’m not sure this is possible (directly) with Inform, but here is what I want to do: I want to buy a number of the same kind of things, say “BUY 6 ARROWS”. Since BUY is a reserved (and blocked) action, I use PURCHASE fo…



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I’m not sure this is possible (directly) with Inform, but here is what I want to do: I want to buy a number of the same kind of things, say “BUY 6 ARROWS”. Since BUY is a reserved (and blocked) action, I use PURCHASE fo…



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Actions with two arguments: a number and a thing

I’m not sure this is possible (directly) with Inform, but here is what I want to do: I want to buy a number of the same kind of things, say “BUY 6 ARROWS”. Since BUY is a reserved (and blocked) action, I use PURCHASE fo…

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