Printing

Print verbs and output styles

Verbs	Style	Output effect
bark, barks, say, says, mention, mentions, tell, tells, announce, announces, declare, declares, command, commands, pant, pants	BARK	As written
growl, growls, shout, shouts	GROWL	UPPERCASE
woof, woofs	WOOF	UPPERCASE
howl, howls	HOWL	First letter ×4 + rest ("hi" → hhhhhi)
whimper, whimpers, whisper, whispers	WHIMPER	lowercase
whine, whines	WHINE	lowercase
yap, yaps, yapping, yapps, squeak, squeaks	YAPPING	Text repeated twice with space
whining, mutter, mutters	WHINING	Letters spaced ("hi" → h i)

Bare verb with no value prints a default for that style (bark → woof, growl → growl, howl → howl, …).

Trait and mood effects apply to dog-voiced prints. See Traits and Runtime semantics.

Simple values

Line	Parses as	Need to know
bark "hello"	Print[BARK, StringLiteral("hello")]
bark	Print + empty value	Default woof
bark 2 plus 3	Print + Binary(PLUS, 2, 3)	Math after verb
bark "a", memory, 5	Print with 3 values	Comma-separated
they growl memory minus how many treats she has, "missing!"	Print + math + string	Math first when minus/plus on line

Dog field reads (without how many)

Line	Parses as	Need to know
bark my labrador name	Print + Field(labrador, name)	Any attribute word after breed/pronoun
she woof her name	Print + Field(her, name)	Pronoun before verb sets dog speaker mood
he growls his age	Print + Field(his, age)
when she has 1 toy then he growls his name	inline IfChain + Print	Field read in branch

Dog field counts (how many … has)

Line	Parses as	Need to know
bark how many toys she has	Print + Field(she, items)
bark how many treats Bimba has	Print + Field(Bimba, food)
bark how many toys the golden retriever has	Print + Field(golden_retriever, items)	Multi-word breed

Stash and pile in print

Line	Parses as	Need to know
bark how many items are in the cookie jar	StashAccess(COUNT)	Print only (not math)
bark how many items are in her cookie jar	same	her is glue
bark how many toys the toy box has	StashAccess(toy_box, COUNT)	Topic + collection
bark her cookie jar	StashAccess(ALL)	Comma-separated items
bark cookie_jar	same	Script name
whimper the second item from the cookie jar	StashAccess(ELEMENT, second)	Ordinals (see stash section)
bark top of laundry_basket pile	PileAccess(TOP)	Top item
bark laundry_basket pile	PileAccess(ALL)	All items, bottom to top

Other print forms

Line	Parses as	Need to know
bark my labrador is loud	Print + HasTrait(labrador, loud)	Prints true/false; does not set trait
bark bark bark	triple paw print	Three same print verbs
bark "woof" letters	Length(...)	String length; also length, characters
bark add with 2, 3	FunctionCall(add, 2, 3)	Trick call
bark ball	Variable(ball)	Global object count

When when is not a branch

Line	Parses as	Need to know
bark "The pack heads home when the jar is empty."	Print only	when inside quotes or after print verb

when only branches when it leads the line. See Writing stories.