Deep Thoughts - A continued table with no content

empty-table-continuations

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In this example we first create an empty table but with typed columns, so we can later on
make a "continued" table and add values there. You can't do this with only blank entries, 
and you can't do it with types in the cells of the first row ("a topic, a text", etc) -- 
as it turns out, what you have to do is put the row types in parentheses after the column 
names. 

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Section 1 - Setup 

Table of Deep Thoughts 
topic (a topic)	name (a text)	rule (a rule)
--	--	--

Pondering is an action out of world applying to one topic. 

Understand "Ponder [text]" as pondering.

Carry out pondering (this is the pondering rule):
	let matched be false;
	repeat through the Table of Deep Thoughts:
		if topic understood matches the topic entry:
			follow the rule entry;
			now matched is true;
	unless matched is true, say "I have nothing to say about [the topic understood]." (A).

Section 2 - Story

The demo is a room

Table of Deep Thoughts (continued)
topic	name	rule
"a/alfa/alpha/aleph/adam"	"Aleph"	the Letter A Rule
"alfa/beta/gamma"	"Greek"	the Greek Rule

This is the Letter A Rule: say "Aaah. This is how it begins."; 

This is the Greek Rule: say "It's all Greek to me."

test me with "ponder alfa"