Title
Stable — Stable features are ones that have earned their place in the core prose language.
universe ClockworkVillage {
describe { ... }
}
dimension place { describe { ... } }
dimension thing { describe { ... } }
relationship isNextTo { describe { ... } }
relationship sitsOn and isSatOnBy { describe { ... } }
concept Villager {
describe { ... }
relationships {
sitsOn { Bench }
}
}
place Well {
describe { ... }
thing WellRope {
describe { ... }
}
}
thing Water {
describe { ... }
}
relates Well and Water {
describe { ... }
}
place Pond {
describe { ... }
}
place Bench {
describe { ... }
relationships {
isNextTo { Pond }
}
}
place CarpentersWorkshop {
title { Carpenter's Workshop }
describe {
The workshop is where the carpenter repairs tools and builds new ones.
}
}
What it is
The fuller wording of a name, when the name cannot carry it.
A concept name is built from a narrow set of characters, and real names are not. Carpenter's Workshop has an apostrophe and a space in it, so it cannot be a concept name — but it is what the place is actually called.
A title records that. It is an additional fact about the concept, never a replacement for it. The name stays CarpentersWorkshop everywhere a name is used: in paths, in relationships, in receipts. The title is only what to call it out loud.
That completes the village, and the language. Nine blocks.
Where it can live
Inside any scope that has a name of its own. One per scope, conventionally written first, above the describe.
How names find it
Nothing. Like a describe, a title holds text and resolves no references. Nothing points at a title, and a title points at nothing.
Its content is not a name and is never treated as one. Two concepts may carry the same title without colliding, because their names are still distinct.
How it breaks
- SP002
DuplicateTitleError— A scope may have only one title.