[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] The Junior G-Men

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/1/02 at 10:31 PM Wonko wrote:

>Quoth Glotmorf,
>
>> {{ _The Junior G-Men_
>>
>> Initial Members:
>> Enrique
>> Luigi
>> Rocky
>> Curt
>> Rod
>> Guido
>>
>> Immediately upon its creation, and each nweek thereafter, this society
>makes
>> the following proposal:
>>
>> {{ _More is More, Nweek <nweek #>_
>>
>> Each member of M-Tek receives 900 points.
>>
>> }}
>>
>> }}
>
>I don't really see how you can create a club unless you provide a Charter
>as
>well... Maybe you wanted that to look something like this? :
>
>I create a society called Team Wonko, with the following Charter:
>{{
>
>Team Wonko has the following Initial Members:
>    Enrique
>    Luigi
>    Rocky
>    Curt
>    Rod
>    Guido
>
>
>Immediately upon its creation, and each nweek thereafter, Team Wonko makes
>the following proposal:
>
>{{ __Lots o' Points!__
>
>Give Wonko 50 points.
>Destroy all clubs created since the beginning of this nweek, then destroy
>all club props issued by said clubs save this one.
>
>}}
>}}
>.
>
>
>All that stuff really does need to be in a Charter, doesn't it?
>
>Yes, it does. ;)

Rule 217 says:

"The character sequences '{{' and '}}' (without the single quotes) may be used in the text of any Action, Proposal, or Rule [[ yay recursion ]] to mark the beginning and end, respectively, of text that should be set apart, such as the text of a Proposal or Rule, or an amendment to either one. If it is not explicitly specified that these character sequences mean something else, they are considered to delimit text in that way.

"However, these standard delimiters are not required to be used in any circumstance; any method of delimiting text in which it is reasonably clear where the text begins and ends is sufficient."

Creating a society is an action, as per Rule 578 subsection G.2.  It says I must declare my intent to create a society, along with its charter.  I provided the name of a society followed by a delimited block of text.  Since I didn't say that the delimited block of text didn't apply to the action I was taking, it applied to the action I was taking, and thus comprised the needed charter.

Your method works too.  However, be advised that the proposal your society attempts to create is a violation of Rule 204, and can't affect my society's proposal.  My society, maybe, but not its proposal.

						Glotmorf


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