How do I force Inform's listing to separate out identical items?

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asked Apr 19 in Authoring by anonymous

I have a stock of non-descript items of a kind which are given attributes on set-up to differentiate them. They have specific names via a "printing the name of" rule. But when I try to list of the items, I get "You can see two foo here" -- because Inform thinks they are nondescript items.

So how do I force Inform to not group them together?

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answered Apr 19 by anonymous

Seems the answer is to hook up the parsing side of things. I added one line:

Understand the label property as describing the item.

and the lists are now separated out (and I can also refer to items too.)

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