Re: [s-d] [s-b] MoM reset

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> >
> > I think I found a way to deal with all this tomfoolery. It cannot be
> > determined with certainty whether the 2199 game action (or all those at
> > 00:00:00.5 and thereabouts) succeeds or fails.
> >
> > Therefore the transaction fails.
> >
>
> It's impossible to tell with certainty whether any future scheduled
> action will happen. 2199 isn't special.


I guess even the most "sure" game actions could be thwarted by intervening
emergencies that change the whole game.

But what's important about these other actions is that they are evaluated
(and succeed or fail) at the future time.

The Transaction needs to be evaluated now... So any Transaction that
includes events at a future time actually fails because these are uncertain.

Now that I think about it that's pretty much the same reason that my
"Logical Hand Grenade" message a while back where I tried to take the MoM
and stop the clock "one minute before the end of nday 12" (or something like
that) failed... Because me doing or not doing that future action couldn't
depend on something anterior to itself e.g. whether nday 12 would actually
end there or not.

BP
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