[Spoon-business] Comment Fix

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A slight fix in how we define comments, because I think the current way 
is flawed - it simply states that text between opening and closing 
brackets is comment, whereas we only want to to be comment between an 
opening pair and the next closing pair.

{{
__Fact from Fiction__

Amend rule 8 to read:
{{
__Comments__

The strings '[[' and ']]' are Comment Delimiters. In any body of text 
related to the game, excepting this rule and any documents that 
explicitly state of themselves that they are exempt, all text between 
an occurrence of '[[' and the next occurrence of ']]' is considered to 
be "comment" text. Comment text exists solely for elucidative or 
demonstrative purposes - it has no bearing on the content of the 
document, and the document is treated as if the text was not there at 
all (except for the purposes of copying, etc.).
[[
Doing it this way is necessary, because under the former wording one 
could claim that two comments implicitly commented the space between 
them. For example:
[[ Hahahaha! ]]
At the beginning of each nweek, the player known as Wonko is awarded a 
Win.
[[ Neener!]]

If the above were in a rule and the former version of r8 were in 
effect, one could make the argument that since the winning clause is 
between opening brackets and closing brackets, it is comment text, 
regardless of whether the opening was closed first (it's between the 
opening of the first comment and the closing of the second).
]]

}}
}}

--
Wonko

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like 
an idiot.
      -Steven Wright

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