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by indrax 1834 days ago
Inform7 has very educational error messages:

(Each time Go or Replay is clicked, Inform tries to translate the source text into a working story, and updates this report.)

Problem. The sentence 'This is a book' appears to say two things are the same - I am reading 'This' and 'book' as two different things, and therefore it makes no sense to say that one is the other: it would be like saying that 'John is Paul'. It would be all right if the second thing were the name of a kind, perhaps with properties: for instance 'Abbey Road is a lighted room' says that something called Abbey Road exists and that it is a 'room', which is a kind I know about, combined with a property called 'lighted' which I also know about.

Because of this problem, the source could not be translated into a working game. (Correct the source text to remove the difficulty and click on Go once again.)

http://inform7.com/