Things in the game world are represented by objects (hashtags) in the Dialog language. Dialog objects are thin; they are identifiers without any code or data inside them. They exist, as names, simply by virtue of being mentioned somewhere in the source code. But they have no contents. Instead, the game world is modelled using predicates, where a predicate is a collection of rule definitions.
We will now extend our minimal example with two objects: A table (called #table) and a chair (#chair). We will give them names and descriptions, categorize them using traits (a kind of inheritable properties), and place them in their initial locations. All of this is achieved by defining rules:
| %% Rules describing the table: | |
| (name #table) | wooden table |
| (descr #table) | It's a sturdy wooden table. |
| (supporter #table) | |
| (#table is #in #room) | |
| %% Rules describing the chair: | |
| (name #chair) | chair |
| (descr #chair) | It's a plastic chair, painted white. |
| (on-seat #chair) | |
| (#chair is #in #room) | |
| %% These are the rules from the minimal story in the previous chapter: | |
| (current player #player) | |
| (#player is #in #room) | |
| (room #room) |
Every rule definition starts with a rule head (the part within parentheses), which must begin at the leftmost column of a line in the source code. The rule head is optionally followed by a rule body (that's the non-parenthesized text in the above example), which may continue onto subsequent lines, as long as those lines are indented by at least one space or tab character.
A double-percent in the source code begins a comment that lasts to the end of the line.
The rule body is a piece of code that can be executed. Plain text is an instruction to print that text. Some special characters (#, $, @, ~, *, |, \, parentheses, brackets, and braces) need to be prefixed by a backslash (\). No special treatment is required for apostrophes or double quotes.
Other instructions may appear within parentheses in rule bodies: For instance, (line) inserts a line break, and (par) inserts a paragraph break. Text in the source code can be formatted freely, because it is broken down internally into a stream of words and punctuation characters, and then reassembled, with space characters automatically inserted in all the right places. This process eliminates the risk of duplicate or missing spaces, line breaks, and paragraph breaks.
| (descr #table) | |
| It's a sturdy wooden table. | |
| %% The following instruction inserts a paragraph break (a blank line). | |
| (par) | |
| %% The following instruction would normally insert a line break, but it | |
| %% has no effect here because of the preceding paragraph break. | |
| (line) | |
| You got this table from your late aunt Margareth. |
The resulting object description would look like this:
To reduce the repetitiveness of coding by rules, Dialog provides a bit of syntactic sugar: It is possible to set a current topic, which is an object name, by mentioning that object at the leftmost column of a line. Then, whenever an asterisk (*) appears in a position where an object name could go, it is understood as a reference to the current topic. This feature makes the code more concise, and easier to type out:
| #table | |
| (name *) | wooden table |
| (descr *) | It's a sturdy wooden table. |
| (supporter *) | |
| (* is #in #room) | |
| #chair | |
| (name *) | chair |
| (descr *) | It's a plain chair, painted white. |
| (on-seat *) | |
| (* is #in #room) | |
| (current player #player) | |
| (#player is #in #room) | |
| (room #room) |
Thus, we have created two tangible objects in our room, given them source code names (#table, #chair), printed names (“wooden table”, “chair”), and descriptions to be revealed by the EXAMINE verb. We have also categorized the objects: The table is a supporter, which means that the player is allowed to put things on top of it. The chair is an on-seat, which is a special kind of supporter that the player may sit on. The standard library defines many other standard categories that may be used by stories, and we'll take a closer look at them in the upcoming chapter on traits. The predefined categories include containers and in-seats (such as armchairs), as well as rooms.
We have also defined an initial location for each object. A location has two parts: A relation (#in) and a parent object (#room). In addition to #in, the standard library supports the relations #on, #under, #behind, #heldby, #wornby, and #partof.
The (descr $) predicate prints the external description of an object; what it looks like when viewed from the outside. Another predicate, (look $), prints the internal description of an object, i.e. what it looks like from the inside. This is used for room descriptions.
Let's add a room description to our example game:
| #player | |
| (current player *) | |
| (* is #in #room) | |
| #room | |
| (name *) | tutorial room |
| (room *) | |
| (look *) | This is a very nondescript room, dominated by a wooden table. |
| (notice #table) %% Binds the word “it” to the table. | |
| #table | |
| (name *) | wooden table |
| (descr *) | It's a sturdy wooden table. |
| (supporter *) | |
| (* is #in #room) | |
| #chair | |
| (name *) | chair |
| (descr *) | It's a plain chair, painted white. |
| (on-seat *) | |
| (* is #in #room) |
Try this game! You can LOOK, and then X IT, and SIT (on what? Answer CHAIR).
Did you miss the chair in the room description? In Dialog, as a general design principle, game objects do not call attention to themselves. They are assumed to be part of the scenery, and it is up to the story author to mention (or subtly hint at) their existence in the prose, like we did with the table. (We will see an important exception to this when we get to the chapter about Items.)
How does the game know that CHAIR refers to the chair object? By default, the standard library assumes that every word that appears in the printed name of an object, i.e. the body of the (name $) rule, can be used to refer to it. If the player types several words in succession, they must all refer to the same object, so WOODEN CHAIR does not match any object in this game. We can easily add extra synonyms to an object, using the (dict $) predicate:
| (dict #chair) | white plain |
Now the game would understand SIT ON THE WHITE CHAIR, for instance. Add some synonyms to the game and try them out! What happens if you add “wooden” as a synonym for the chair, and type EXAMINE WOODEN? What about SIT ON WOODEN?
It's easy to conjure up new predicates. We simply define one or more rules for them. For instance, we might want to put the primary construction material of our objects in a separate predicate that we call (material):
| (material) | caramelized sugar |
This predicate can then be queried from within rule bodies, like so:
| #table | |
| (name *) | (material) table |
| (descr *) | It's a sturdy table made of (material). |
We can use variables to pass parameters around. In the following example, a generic object description calls out to object-specific material and colour predicates. The standard library doesn't know about these predicates; we just created them by defining rules for them. The library queries (descr $), and we take it from there:
| #player | |
| (current player *) | |
| (* is #in #room) | |
| (descr *) | It's you. |
| #room | |
| (name *) | tutorial room |
| (room *) | |
| (look *) | This is a very nondescript room, dominated by a |
| wooden table. (notice #table) | |
| #table | |
| (name *) | table |
| (material *) | caramelized sugar |
| (colour *) | dark brown |
| (supporter *) | |
| (* is #in #room) | |
| #chair | |
| (name *) | chair |
| (material *) | plastic |
| (colour *) | white |
| (on-seat *) | |
| (* is #in #room) | |
| (descr $Obj) | It's (colour $Obj) and made of (material $Obj). |
Note that the rule for (descr #player), on line four, supersedes the generic rule for (descr $Obj), at the very last line. This is solely due to the order in which they appear in the source code. When coding in Dialog, make sure to always put specific rules before generic rules.
Variables are local to the rule definition in which they appear: In the example, $Obj is only available from within the last rule. If we were to use a variable named $Obj inside one of the other rules, that would be a completely unrelated variable.
Queries either fail or succeed. When a predicate is queried, each rule definition is tried in program order, until a match is found. If there is no matching rule, the query fails. As a general rule of thumb, predicates that print text should be designed to always succeed. Therefore, we'll often want to put a catch-all rule at the end of the program, with a wildcard ($) in the rule head:
| (material $) | an unknown material |
| (colour $) | beige |
The standard library provides a catch-all rule for (descr $), printing a stock message along the lines of “It seems to be harmless”. But for our material and colour predicates, we have to provide our own catch-all rules.
At runtime, objects of the game world are organized into object trees. Every object has (at most) one parent, and a relation (in, on, under, behind, held by, or worn by) to that parent. The root of a tree has no parent. Sometimes you will run into the expression “the object tree of the game”, as though every object were part of a single, huge tree with only one root. Technically, it is more correct to say “the object forest of the game”, because there can be more than one root object. Rooms don't have parents, so every room is the root of a tree.
In the Dialog standard library, the object forest is encoded using two predicates: ($Object has parent $Parent) and ($Object has relation $Relation). For brevity, there's an access predicate that combines them into a single expression: ($Object is $Relation $Parent). We have already seen that one defines the initial location of an object like this:
| (#chair is #in #room) |
and, due to the access predicate, the above is equivalent to the following pair of definitions:
| (#chair has parent #room) | |
| (#chair has relation #in) |
From within a rule body, you may query the access predicate to determine the current location of an object:
| (descr #apple) | |
| The apple | |
| (if) (#apple is #in $Parent) (then) | |
| in (the $Parent) | |
| (endif) | |
| looks yummy! |
The output of the above code might be:
With a multi-query, you can backtrack over every object that has a particular location:
| (descr #basket) | |
| It's a plain fruit basket. | |
| (exhaust) { | |
| *($Child is #in $Obj) | |
| There's (a $Child) inside. | |
| } |
The location of an object is dynamic, which means that it can be modified at runtime using the (now) keyword:
| (descr #apple) | |
| (if) (#apple is #in #basket) (then) | |
| Yummy! | |
| (else) | |
| The apple seems to be very shy. As soon as you look at it, it | |
| jumps of its own accord into the fruit basket. | |
| (now) (#apple is #in #basket) | |
| (endif) |
The standard library also uses dynamic predicates to track the internal state of game world objects. For instance, ($ is closed) succeeds when a particular openable object (such as a container, or a door) is currently closed. The access predicate ($ is open) is defined as its negation, ~($ is closed), allowing both forms to appear as queries, now-expressions, and initial value definitions.
A convenience predicate, (open or closed $), prints the word “open” if the given object is open, and “closed” otherwise. The same thing can of course be coded explicitly with an if statement.
| #box | |
| (openable *) | |
| (* is closed) | |
| (descr *) | |
| The box is (open or closed *). | |
| (intro) | |
| Pandora looks at her box. (descr #box) | |
| (now) ~(#box is closed) | |
| She looks away for five seconds, and then looks at it again, | |
| just to check. (descr #box) | |
| (par) (bold) \*\*\* That's just life. \*\*\* (roman) (par) | |
| (game over) |
The following dynamic predicates are used by the library:
| Dynamic predicate | Negated version | |
|---|---|---|
| ($ is closed) | ($ is open) | Changed by: OPEN, CLOSE. |
| ($ is locked) | ($ is unlocked) | Changed by: LOCK, UNLOCK. |
| ($ is off) | ($ is on) | Changed by: SWITCH ON, SWITCH OFF. |
| ($ is opaque) | ($ is transparent) | Never changed by the library. |
| ($ is broken) | ($ is in order) | Never changed by the library. |
| ($ is handled) | ($ is pristine) | Object has been moved by the player. |
| ($ is visited) | ($ is unvisited) | The player has been inside this room. |
| ($ is hidden) | ($ is revealed) | Not suggested during disambiguation. |
Hidden objects, ($ is hidden), can be in scope (meaning that the parser will recognize them as nouns), but the library is careful not to mention them. Thus, if the player carries a pink slip, and the current room contains a pink elephant that is hidden, then EXAMINE PINK will print the description of the slip, with no disambiguating questions asked. EXAMINE PINK ELEPHANT will examine the elephant, as would EXAMINE PINK if the slip weren't there. The idea is to improve the experience of replaying a game, while avoiding spoilers on the first playthrough.
Hidden objects can be revealed either by directly updating the flag, (now) (#elephant is revealed), or by querying (reveal $) for the given object. A hidden object is also revealed implicitly when its name is printed, or when (notice $) is invoked on it.


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// Print conflicating or alread fulfilled commands
if dry_run:
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if dry_run:
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by Ridwan YusufPresident of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Suleman Johnson has confirmed that he is a fan of English Premier League (EPL) club, Arsenal.
Concise News reports that Apostle Suleman shared his thoughts on the trending story of Unai Emery’s sack by the Gunners’ board this morning.
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Arsenal sacked Emery after the club’s worst run of results since 1992, with ex-winger Freddie Ljungberg appointed as interim head coach.
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Introduction:
Standard deviation is a statistical term that measures the amount of variability or dispersion around an average.
Standard deviation is also a measure of volatility. Generally speaking, dispersion is the difference between the actual value
and the average value. The larger this dispersion or variability is, the higher the standard deviation. The smaller this
dispersion or variability is, the lower the standard deviation. Chartists can use the standard deviation to measure expected
risk and determine the significance of certain price movements.
Calculation:
Calculate the average (mean) price for the number of periods or observations.
Determine each period's deviation (close less average price).
Square each period's deviation.
Sum the squared deviations.
Divide this sum by the number of observations.
The standard deviation is then equal to the square root of that number.
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