Adventure Writing for Everyone
- FEATURE: UTF-8 encoding is now supported for source, solution and transcript files. This extends support for non-English languages. The new compiler option
-encodingwill make the compiler assume that the source code is encoded with UTF-8. In addition, import files that have a UTF-8 BOM marker will always be read using UTF-8 encoding, irrespective of any options. The interpreter switch-uwill indicate that input and output in the terminal, command logs, transcript files and solution files, is performed using UTF-8 encoding (which is the default on Linux and becoming more common). See Appendix C in The Alan Language Manual for details. - FEATURE (language): Block comments. See chapter 4, Lexical Definitions in the Alan Language Manual
- FEATURE (interpreters): Make it possible to generate transcript and command logs simultaneously from a single game run
- FEATURE (misc): Ensure Alan complies with the Babel Treaty (a convention to make it possible to identify and catalog *all* works of Interactive Fiction)
- FEATURE (interpreter): Add separate option for not paging output ("<More>")
- WARNING: warn for actors in containers as the behaviour is not completely well-defined
- BUGFIX: When an item is located in a container the limits now considers content in possibly contained items recursively. Furthermore, if the container in itself is inside a container with limits those limits are also checked. This might change behaviour of existing games, please check by running your tests.
- BUGFIX: Large games with many string or set manipulations could sometimes exhibit significant slowdowns over time
- BUGFIX: Transcript was always empty when started from code using "Transcript On."
- BUGFIX: Random spacing issues fixed
- BUGFIX: Dynamic variable
$vgave wrong output if used in Exits - BUGFIX: Dynamic variable
$ocrashed the interpreter if used in an Exit - BUGFIX: Option section did not allow you to use 'no' before a boolean option
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- FEATURE: ellision/contraction marked by apostrophe (such as "l'aqua" in italian) is now handled so that it is first looked up as a complete word, but failing that will fallback and look for the two parts separated by the apostrophe as single words.
- FEATURE: allow double conjunctions between player sentences, to allow such as "take the stone and then drop it". ("and" and "then" are both conjunctions).
- BUGFIX: pack option did not work
- BUGFIX: Random In Container sometimes crashed
- BUGFIX: Grave accented 'È' ('è') was lost in syntaxes and synonyms
- BUGFIX: It was possible to declare multiple pronouns but only the first one worked.
- BUGIFX: System Error was thrown when using IN-filters and the container was a local variable.
- BUGFIX: Division by zero crashed the interpreter, now it throws an Application Error instead.
- BUGFIX: If the player input in a string parameter contained a dollar sign, it was expanded on output (or crashed)
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- FEATURE: There was no way to print $500, as that was interpreted as a symbol.
- BUGFIX: There was no way to create synonym for 'the'.
- BUGFIX: Compiler did not adhere to "Option Debug." in the source.
- BUGFIX: You could say "Container Taking <x>" without warnings or errors even if the class <x> was not allowed in container (actors and locations).
- BUGFIX: Description Checks was not respected when auto-listing instances at a location.
- BUGFIX: Improved error handling for syntax errors in names, which previously could cause a System Error.
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- FEATURE: compiler now figures out the most general class taken transitively by containers and uses that instead of entity where applicable
- FEATURE: MacOS application to run text-only interpreter in a terminal
- BUGFIX: if the hero was already defined as something other than an actor, declaring it the compiler crashed
- CLEANUP: corrected implementation of transitivity
- CLEANUP: rebuilt Makefiles for building on Windows10 and 64-bit, continuous integration with Jenkins etc. etc. after move to new machines and other infrastructure
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- MAJOR FEATURE: 'Indirectly' keyword to complement 'Directly In', allowing explicit transitivity of containment, see the manual
- FEATURE: The hero is now a container by default
- FEATURE: The hero may inherit from any subclass of actor
- FEATURE: Actor scripts are now aborted if an error, such as an extraction failure, occurs
- FEATURE: Debugger shows symbolic name of events when tracing
- FEATURE: WinAlan now generates the output file in the correct directory if a source file is dropped on the WinAlan icon
- BUGFIX: Locating something inside itself hanged the interpreter, now generates controlled Application Error
- BUGFIX: For Each loops with In-filters did not take transitivity into account, might now detect more errors
- BUGFIX: Initial locations in containers did not consider the Taking <class> of the container
- BUGFIX: Debugger section trace crashed on verb bodies in locations
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