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I am trying to use a Kind of action (section 7.15 of the manual) with going from certain places (section 7.13) by I seem to keep getting errors. Is this a bug? Is there a better way of doing this?

A little tricky, but since there is no westward connection from Main Street West, "Going west from Main Street West" is not recognized as a valid action and therefore not able to be categorized as a kind of action. You want to use "in" in this case:

EDIT: The code above works, but the reason given isn't correct; even if one adds a valid westward connection, your original code still fails to compile. This does appear to be a hole in the implementation of the compiler's understanding of the whole "going in / from / etc.." when used in conjunction with kinds of action (i.e. a bug which should be reported).

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Skinny Mike

What exactly are the sorts of actions that can be made into kinds of action? Section 7.15 doesn't really say. Going west in [some room] works, and this works too:



But it doesn't seem to be "anything you can put in a rule header," because though this works once I've defined weapons as a kind and weapon name as a text that weapons have:



this does not work:



Now I can do this:



but I'm curious to know what I can and can't do here.

Here's my wild guess: you can't use "when" in a kind-of-action definition, nor can you use action variables via "matched as" (e.g. any of the exotic "going" conditions).

In fact if you try "Singing when in the northern room is pleasing action" you get an error message indicating that you can't use "when" in kinds of action.