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                                            Mike Taylor

Interpreter doesn't look after actions

I'll ignore the second part of this (symbolic constants for numeric opcodes), but feel free to file that ss its own issue: I'd like to keep issues atomic. On redisplaying:...

Interpreter doesn't look after actions

Hmm, but by the time of _The Count_ (the fifth of Adams's games) things have got more complicated: some `goto`s, but not all, are followed by an explicit `look`. i'm...

Interpreter doesn't look after actions

OK, I think I have it. I need a "does the location need redescribing?" flag, which starts out false at the beginning of each turn. The various opcodes mentioned above...

Interpreter doesn't look after actions

Manually adding `look` certainly should work! As I noted in an earlier comment, it's what _Adventureland_ does all the time: for example -- ``` action GO TRE when here tree...

Interpreter doesn't look after actions

Oh! Stupid of me not to have fixed the documentation! I'll do that now (and in general feel free to send PRs if you find mistakes in the docs.) But,...

Interpreter doesn't look after actions

Fixed the doc. Code fix some time in the future.

Replace withIO with input and output stream parameters

Give me a moment to think this through, please. I want to remember why I made `withIO`. I admit that what you propose sounds saner, but I must have had...

Replace withIO with input and output stream parameters

I admit that `withIO` is a slightly eccentric approach -- I am still trying to remember why I did it this way -- but is is actively preventing you from...

Ability to add hashtags to lists

I would find this amazingly helpful. Here is my scenario. I follow Liverpool Football Club, which has both a group (@[email protected]) and a hashtag (#LFC). Some people use one, some...

Ability to add hashtags to lists

@jakkarth Thank you so much for looking into this!