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[Proposal] Dynamic Diverts
This is a follow up to #668 but in a more proposal/proposal-like format.
Main.ink
Once upon a time...
* I ran across the street.
* I took a bus to boston.
- They lived happily ever after. -> external_chapter.Main
This gives the following error in inky: "Divert target not found: '-> external_chapter.Main'
What if we introduced the ability to compile this ink to json when external_chapter.Main is $external_chapter.Main
where '$' denotes a dynamically loaded ink file by name/key.
In the Inky editor when we want an ink file to be dynamically loaded through a resolver at runtime and not included in the Main.ink file we can prepend the '$' symbol which would tell the compiler to compile this ink file separately as an appendable chunk/plugin.
When the ink runtime reaches a divert target where the first character begins with '$' this tells the runtime to dynamically load the ink file (up to the dot) and append it to the current story through a resolver function specified by the developer if the knot-stitch after does not exist.
