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Substitutions in "Means"
Suppose tracker 3 has been solved, and we want to set it up as a seed tracker at its current position. We might say
make tracker 3's lock position its current position and make tracker 3 seed.
That works great for tracker 3, but what if we want to do it for other trackers, or a bunch of trackers? We don’t want to have to say or type that out each time.
Instead, we can make up our own word:
define "seedify a tracker " means "make the tracker 's lock position its current position and make the tracker seed ".
Notice the nonterminal in there, after seedify? We’re telling Synthia that it can "seedify" any tracker with this procedure. In the definition of seedify, the tracker becomes the tracker that we’re talking about.
If we want to define something with two trackers in it, say make a mesh sit on a mesh, then in its definition we can talk about the first mesh and the second mesh . While the is usually insignificant, here it is important: you are talking about something specific, and the is required. You can also use it and them, though they are vague and can be misconstrued.
Back to seedify. Suppose we want to say
lock and seedify the blue trackers.
There are two embellishments in that: we want seedify to work on several trackers, and we want to lock and seedify at the same time. To do that, we must first tell Synthia
define seedify is a verb. // or metaverb, your choice
With that statement (which creates a rule, try it), seedify can be combined with other verbs to create sentences like the one for lock and seedify.
Exercise: create a noisy lock verb, to lock a tracker then what's been done.
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