Harrison, Andrew on 16 Mar 2001 17:10:51 -0000


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RE: spoon-discuss: RE: spoon-business: Motion to Amend Trivialy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Uckelman [mailto:uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Quoth "Harrison, Andrew":
> > > I move to Amend Trivialy each non-case-specific instance of 
> > > "Repayment" in
> > > the rules to "Payment"
> > > 
> > > [[My previous effort to fix this resulted in changing 
> about half of
> > > them.]]
> > 
> > I'm not too sure that a global replacement like that can 
> really be called a
> > 'trivial' change. Isn't there any sort of limit on what can 
> be in a trivial
> > change?
> 
> Triviality is in the eye of the objector. It's easy to recognize, but 
> enormously difficult to define precisely. This shouldn't be a 
> problem, 
> though, since you can object if you don't think it's a trivial change.

Yeah, I going to object. Sorry Poulenc but to me that doesn't seem a trivial
change. To me a trivial change must be simple enough that I can just read it
and be happy that it doesn't really change anything substantial. With a
global replacement like that I'd have to search through the rules and check
each place, and I don't have the time for that. Although I'm fairly sure
that there wouldn't be any problem with this particular change, I'd rather
we didn't allow global changes as they are so easy to get wrong.

--
The Kid