Three action-related kinds of value.

§1. The following represent action names, stored actions and descriptions of actions respectively: see Actions Plugin for what these terms mean.

kind *K_action_name = NULL;
kind *K_stored_action = NULL;
kind *K_description_of_action = NULL;

§2. These are created by a Neptune file inside WorldModelKit, and are recognised by their Inter identifiers:

int ARvalues::new_base_kind_notify?Usage of ARvalues::new_base_kind_notify:
Actions Plugin - §1(kind *new_base, text_stream *name, wording W) {
    if (Str::eq_wide_string(name, U"ACTION_NAME_TY")) {
        K_action_name = new_base; return TRUE;
    }
    if (Str::eq_wide_string(name, U"DESCRIPTION_OF_ACTION_TY")) {
        K_description_of_action = new_base; return TRUE;
    }
    if (Str::eq_wide_string(name, U"STORED_ACTION_TY")) {
        K_stored_action = new_base; return TRUE;
    }
    return FALSE;
}

§3. A stored action can always be compared to a gerund: for instance,

if the current action is taking something...

int ARvalues::actions_typecheck_equality?Usage of ARvalues::actions_typecheck_equality:
Actions Plugin - §1(kind *K1, kind *K2) {
    if ((Kinds::eq(K1, K_stored_action)) && (Kinds::eq(K2, K_description_of_action)))
        return TRUE;
    return FALSE;
}

§4. All three of these kinds can have constant values. For an action name, these correspond simply to action_name objects:

parse_node *ARvalues::from_action_name?Usage of ARvalues::from_action_name:
Action Name Names - §3(action_name *val) {
        CONV_FROM(action_name, K_action_name) }
action_name *ARvalues::to_action_name?Usage of ARvalues::to_action_name:
§7
Actions Plugin - §5
Action Variables - §1(parse_node *spec) {
        CONV_TO(action_name) }

§5. When text is parsed to an action pattern, the result can be stored as a constant in two ways. If the pattern unambiguously describes a single explicit action, the result has the kind "stored action" and corresponds to an explicit_action object; if the pattern is looser than that, the result is a "description of action" and correspond to an action_pattern.

For example, "taking the golden telephone" might be a K_stored_action constant, but "doing something to the golden telephone" or "taking something" or "taking the golden telephone in the presence of Mr Wu" would all be K_description_of_action.

parse_node *ARvalues::from_action_pattern?Usage of ARvalues::from_action_pattern:
Actions-Only Nodes and Annotations - §8
Action Conditions - §1(action_pattern *val) {
    int failure_code = 0;
    explicit_action *ea = ExplicitActions::from_action_pattern(val, &failure_code);
    if (ea) {
        parse_node *spec = Node::new(CONSTANT_NT);
        Node::set_kind_of_value(spec, K_stored_action);
        Node::set_constant_explicit_action(spec, ea);
        return spec;
    } else {
        CONV_FROM(action_pattern, K_description_of_action);
    }
}
action_pattern *ARvalues::to_action_pattern?Usage of ARvalues::to_action_pattern:
Action Conditions - §1, §2(parse_node *spec) {
        CONV_TO(action_pattern) }
explicit_action *ARvalues::to_explicit_action?Usage of ARvalues::to_explicit_action:
Action Conditions - §1(parse_node *spec) {
        CONV_TO(explicit_action) }

§6. Finally, for a named action pattern, constant values correspond to named_action_pattern objects. These are actually never used at run-time and do not appear as rvalues in any permanent way inside the compiler, so the kind K_description_of_action is given to them only on principle. If they were used as values, this is the kind we would probably give them.

parse_node *ARvalues::from_named_action_pattern?Usage of ARvalues::from_named_action_pattern:
Named Action Patterns - §3(named_action_pattern *val) {
        CONV_FROM(named_action_pattern, K_description_of_action ) }
named_action_pattern *ARvalues::to_named_action_pattern?Usage of ARvalues::to_named_action_pattern:
Named Action Patterns - §3(parse_node *spec) {
        CONV_TO(named_action_pattern) }

§7. It's not useful to be able to compare description of action constants for equality in this sense. There would be a case for doing so with stored actions, but in practice there seems little need, so for the moment we do not.

int ARvalues::compare_CONSTANT?Usage of ARvalues::compare_CONSTANT:
Actions Plugin - §1(parse_node *spec1, parse_node *spec2, int *rv) {
    kind *K = Node::get_kind_of_value(spec1);
    if (Kinds::eq(K, K_action_name)) {
        if (ARvalues::to_action_name(spec1) == ARvalues::to_action_name(spec2)) {
            *rv = TRUE;
        }
        *rv = FALSE;
        return TRUE;
    }
    return FALSE;
}