Inform library 6/6 corrected

[Graham Nelson]

Inform Library 6/6 corrected slightly
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Library 6/5 has a number of annoying, if minor, bugs -- as Dan
Schmidt wrote on a backtrace showing the parser running,

*** Golly this line looks suspicious ***

(how right he was) and "oops" didn't work at all, an irony which
I'd better not take any credit for. Since the annual competition
is very nearly upon us it's high time for library 6/6, in which all
known bugs are mended. A new version of the compiler will follow
in a few days. Like every library since 6/3, this release of the
library will only work with compiler version 6.10 or later.

As will be seen, the parser is slightly enhanced (see changes 237
and 247) but there are no dramatic new features.

I'm repeating this post because I inadvertently left some tracing
code in -- as anyone typing "oops" will have noticed. I've removed
this code and otherwise the library is unaltered from yesterday
evening's version, so I'm not going to change the serial numbers.

As a temporary measure, you can get hold of the new library from the
Inform 6 Home Page:

http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/inform.html

(in the form of a tar archive containing all 8 of the files
making up the library). It will be filed in its proper place at
ftp.gmd.de shortly, and then the temporary uploads page will be
taken out.

I should like to thank everybody who emailed me with their woes
and to sympathise with one and all, not least the authors of the
forthcoming and marvellous "Zork: The Undiscovered Underground".

Graham Nelson
18 August 1997

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