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Hi everyone, I'm an absolute beginner with Inform 7 and I wonder if someone could answer a quick question. I've been following a wikibooks tutorial that introduces understanding, so, for example:

and simple conditions,


My question is, how do I make "toadstool" stand for mushroom ONLY AFTER the mushroom has been examined?
I.E. something like

Or:


Thanks in advance!

Although I'm not sure that you really want to do this, as the player might want to use the word "toadstool" to mean the mushroom without having examined it.

Thanks. I had this working by setting a variable when the player examined the mushroom, but I knew there had to be a more elegant way. And yes, I understand your point; my motivation is really just about learning how things like this are done, without consideration of whether they should be done.