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Section - Milestone mode

Milestone mode is a truth state that varies. Milestone mode is false. Final release mode is a truth state that varies. Final release mode is true. [ These two set up different testing environments. Milestone mode was for frequent releases to testers, and included special prompts to save transcripts and certain testing commands.]

First After reading a command when milestone mode is true (this is the ignore beta-comments rule):

if the player's command matches the regular expression "^\p" begin;

speak as the parser "Comment noted.";

reject the player's command;

end if.