Here is the crux of the issue: I don’t know how to access elements of a list.
I thought this would work:
An adventurer is a kind of person.
An adventurer has some text called advName.
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The Team is a list of adventurers that varies.
X, Y, Z, W are adventurers.
Team is {W, X, Y, Z}.
The advname of Z is "no one".
Understand the advname property as describing an adventurer.
Data is a kind of value. The data are stName, stSex, stClass, stDex, complete, and paused.
Stage is data that varies. Stage is stName.
AdvNext is some text that varies.
OrdList is a list of text that varies. OrdList is {"first", "second", "third", "fourth"}.
AdvCounter is a number that varies. AdvCounter is 0.
Lobby is a room.
Description of Lobby is "[if unvisited]Welcome to the Ugly Ogre Inn! Excitement-starved adventurers meet here to form teams. Soon a team of adventurers will gather in the Lobby.[else] A team is gathering: [end if] ";
After looking in location:
say "You see ";
repeat with N running through Team:
**say "advName of [entry N of Team]";**
follow the adventurer-printing rule;The compile error is
Problem. You wrote ‘say “advName of [entry N of Team]”’ : but that doesn’t make sense to me as a list entry, because the indication of which entry is not a number. For instance, ‘entry 3 of L’ is allowed, but not ‘entry “six” of L’. (List entries are numbered 1, 2, 3, …)
If I get it to compile, then a second adventurer, created by the player, overwrites the first adventurer.