bored dance

story.ni

"dance of boredom" by kook
"sitting somewhere between pseudocode and real inform7, making inform seem much more likeable than it is, unplugged from the world, this node stares cross-eyed into space"



world is a room.




the table of dance
text
step
"turn left"
"turn right"
"blink a light"




include dynamic objects



a robot is a kind of container
a robot can be bored.


understand hello:
    clone new robot


being bored is an action applying to one robot.
understand "i'm bored" as being bored.
carry out being bored:
    do a step.

every minute:
    do a step.

to do a step:
    select row dance_step from the table of dance
    increment dance_step
    running thru every bored robot:
        say step


understand "new step' as adding a new step
adding a new step is an action applying to one indexed text
carry out adding a new step:
    select a blank column in the table of dance
    let step be the text understood