Re: [s-d] up to speed

[Charles Walker <charles.w.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your help. I'll be re-reading the ruleset.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Geoffrey Spear <wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Charles Walker
> <charles.w.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've just joined B Nomic after being advised it was a good time to join
> as
> > it is poised to come out of a slump. I have read the ruleset but I'm not
> > really clear on how and why B Nomic got into a state of emergency and
> what I
> > can do at this point. Please can someone bring me up to speed on what is
> > happening at the moment? Thanks in advance.
>
> We have a rule that says that any text between a /* and a */ or a [[
> and a ]] has no effect on the game.  We've recently realized that
> given the most pedantic reading of the text of this rule, this means
> that if any rule contains multiple comments, any text between those
> comments also has no effect, either because the literal reading is
> analogous to greedy regular expressions or because in "]] TEXT [[" the
> text is 'between' a [[ and a ]].
>
> The upshot of this is that the Clock has been off for over a year, and
> during that time it's been impossible to submit proposals. Any fun
> that anyone thought they were having playing under the old rules
> therefore didn't exist, so we must adjust our mental states as
> necessary.  Or, you know, not.
> --
> Wooble
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