I just wondered what the best way of doing a looped choice where the options are reduced each time is? Particularly where you have, say, 3 places to explore, so you explore place A , but then it returns you to the same choice MINUS choice A until all the choices are exhausted?

If you have fake_choice instead of choice you could have all the lines that start with *else *if and *goto after the fake_choice. Also why would you have two line_breaks? It makes it look like you are trying to boost your word count. @Nahim looks like you would have to follow @Fiogan ’s way then.

I try to use *choice whenever possible (I believe that’s recommended by CoG in one of the blog posts, as well?) because it’s less likely to cause continuity errors, since you always MUST send every option to somewhere specific. Also *choice doesn’t have potential problems if you need to nest within…

@Fiogan it seems like we are getting off topic, which is probably my fault. I always seem to get off topic. If you want to keep talking about this though I would be happy to pm you.

All right! I thought, since it was a coding-related issue, explaining my reasoning for using *choice and *line_break might be helpful. Apologies if it was off-topic or otherwise irrelevant.

We prefer that you not use two *line_breaks in a row. Instead, you should use *comment endif to assert the existence of blank lines. Look at published Choice of Games’ code to see its use.

Thanks! That’s very helpful to know.

[image] jasonstevanhill: We prefer that you not use two *line_breaks in a row. As another writer whose WiP is littered with double *line_breaks… why the preference?

Doesn’t just hitting return twice in the midst of text give you a blank line without actually coding a line_break? The way I grokked it, hard line breaks are when you don’t want an double-line paragraph break as in single-spaced stanzas in a poem.

Yes. I had been using the double *line_break for places where several threads of code converged, not in the midst of text blocks, mostly so I could tell for sure what ‘level’ the paragraph break would be.

[image] Hanon_Ondricek: Doesn’t just hitting return twice in the midst of text give you a blank line without actually coding a line_break? Not reliably at the end of a conditional text block. The paragraph came to an end. *if not(over_yet) After a few more words. And a new paragraph began…

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