I recall in the game ‘Spellbreaker’, the player was able to write words on the Foundation Cubes, to differentiate them, and the player was able to refer to the individual cubes by those words. Is there way to allow the player to not only change the printed name of an object, but also be able to refer to that object by a name chosen by the player…??
I have to assume that must have been a design-goal: If Infocom did it, it should be doable in Inform.
I’d go as far as to say that if a system can be described in book prose, you can model it interactively in Inform as well. Sometimes it just takes some creative thinking.