Editing Inform (section)

=== Inform 6 library ===

The Inform system also contains the Inform library, which automates nearly all the most difficult work involved in programming [[interactive fiction]]; specifically, it includes a text [[parsing|parser]] that makes sense of the player's input, and a world model that keeps track of such things as objects (and their properties), rooms, doors, the player's inventory, etc.

The Inform compiler does not require the use of the Inform library. There are several replacement libraries available, such as Platypus<ref name="platypus">{{cite web
  | url        = http://www.elvwood.org/InteractiveFiction/Platypus/
  | title      = Inform Platypus release 4
  | access-date = 2007-01-04
  | date       = 2002-03-14
  | last       = Turner
  | first      = Anson
}}</ref> and [[InformATE]], a library that codes Inform in Spanish. Some games may use no library at all, such as a direct port of [[Zork]] into Inform 6.<ref name=Plotkin/>