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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions ...al/Extensions/Graham Nelson/Standard Rules.i7xd/Source/Sections/Variables and Rulebooks.w
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Expand Up @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ particular action in progress. Thus on a taking action, the six stages
followed are before, instead, check taking, carry out taking, after and
report taking.

During play, then, the three rulebooks "check", "after" and "report"
During play, then, the three rulebooks "check", "carry out" and "report"
are completely empty. This is the result of a reform in April 2007 which
wasn't altogether popular. Before then, Inform rather cleverly filed rules like
"Check doing something with the haddock" in the generic "check"
Expand All @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ and also a clearer conceptual definition of what these rulebooks were for.
withdrawn.)

So if they are always empty and never used, why are the three rulebooks
called simply "check", "after" and "report" created in the first
called simply "check", "carry out" and "report" created in the first
place? The answer is that this is a convenience for parsing rule preambles
in Inform: it provides a temporary home for such rules before they are divided up
into their specific rulebooks, and it also makes it easier for Inform to detect
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