Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Recursion Limit

[Dan Waldron <wald7330@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would be happy to ban pseudocode actions altogether, apart from perhaps
very simple statements like "if I have at least five points then..." or
"when Wonko transfers me five points then...".  The assumption would have
to be that the second of these can occur only once.  Perhaps there should
also be some sort of statute of limitations on time-delayed actions.  I
suggest one nweek.

Instead of having a recursion limit I think it would be simply to get rid
of recursion altogether.

On the other hand, if player action-statements can hang around and repeat
themselves, surely proposal-actions can do the same.  If anything,
proposals have a higher base of authority from which to begin.  Maybe we
don't even need rules at all.

Dan


On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Wonko wrote:

> Quoth Rob Speer,
> 
> > I propose:
> > {{ __Recursion Limit__
> > 
> > Create a rule:
> > {{ __Recursion Limit__ {* 1 *}
> > 
> > An Action performed by a Player (not by a Proposal or a Rule) is called
> > a Player Action, or PA.
> > 
> > All PAs have a Recursion Number, which is determined by this rule.
> > 
> > If a PA depends on one or more other PAs that have not yet been
> > recognized, its Recursion Number is one greater than the highest
> > Recursion Number of the unrecognized PAs it depends on. If not, its
> > Recursion Number is 0.
> > 
> > Any PA with a Recursion Number of 5 or greater does not occur.
> > }}
> 
> What if I do, "As soon as any other player gives me 5 points, I throw em a
> Gnome"? It's not reliant on a specific action, just the general one of
> somebody giving me points. Another player could then say, "As soon as Wonko
> votes yes on my prop, I give em 5 points", or simply "I give Wonko 5
> points". The Recursion Number of my action is dependant on the recursion
> number of the other player's not-yet-performed action, which can't be
> determined until the action is performed.
> 
> -- 
> Wonko
> 
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Dan Waldron
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