Write down what looking, examining, and searching each ask - #59
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The three are not the same question. "look" asks what is here, "look at" asks what a thing is showing, and "search" asks what it is withholding. Examining takes what an object offers; searching takes what it keeps back, which is why the one leaves the world alone and the other rarely does. That 'examine' is a synonym of 'look' is a convention and not a semantics -- the English word sits nearer the thorough thing -- and it was worth saying out loud, because it is the kind of decision that reads as an oversight to anyone who wasn't there when it was made. The other new paragraph is the rule that a word belongs to whichever definition claims it first; a later claim on a word already spoken for is dropped in silence. This file is included ahead of every game's own lexicon, so a word added here is one no game can take back. Nothing in the repository said so, and "The Gorreven Papers" carries a dead 'syn' line that shows how easy it is not to know. Comments are stripped before compilation, so both goldens are byte for byte unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Ui8UMgev1U8LW5iyQdSsJ
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games/lexicon.arch, no code.The first records the rule that a word belongs to whichever definition claims it first, and that a later claim on a word already spoken for is dropped silently. This file is included ahead of every game's own lexicon, which makes adding a word here a change no game can opt out of. That rule is nowhere written down, and
gorreven_lex.arch:36carries asyn : 'examine'that has never done anything as a result — evidence turned up while surveying #50.The second says what
look,look at, andsearcheach ask, and why'examine'is a synonym of the first rather than the last:Examining takes what an object offers; searching takes what it keeps back.
There is no baseline
'search'yet — that is #50, and the third rung is described here as the thing a game defines for itself, which is true today. When #50 lands, that sentence is the one line of this comment that changes.Risk: none. Comments are stripped before compilation, so
tests/golden/check.shpasses with both.acxfiles byte for byte identical. 18 test suites, 0 failures.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_013Ui8UMgev1U8LW5iyQdSsJ