1.4. Information Only

| Chapter 1: How to Use The Recipe Book |

| 1.4. Information Only

One last preliminary: a handful of the examples do not show how to do anything at all, but are really sidebars of information. Those examples are gathered below, since they contribute nothing by way of recipes.

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| Example Backus-Naur form for rules The full grammar Inform uses to parse rule definitions, in a standard computer-science notation. |
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| Example Formal syntax of sentences A more formal description of the sentence grammar used by Inform for both assertions and conditions. |
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| Example Mathematical view of relations Some notes on relations from a mathematical point of view, provided only to clarify some technicalities for those who are interested. |
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| Example Graph-theory view of relations Some notes on relations from the point of view of graph theory. |
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| Example About Inform's regular expression support Some footnotes on Inform's regular expressions, and how they compare to those of other programming languages. |
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