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§18.21. Printing the name of a dark room

1. When it happens. When looking in darkness, or writing the (default) status line in darkness.

2. The default behaviour. To print "Darkness".

3. Examples. (a) One might modify the darkness with some adjective:

Before printing the name of a dark room, say "Near ".

(Note that this activity does not come in different forms for different dark rooms: the wording is fixed at "printing the name of a dark room", and we are not allowed to substitute particular dark rooms or assign a "(called ...)" onto the mention of the dark room.)


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