Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] The Daily Recognizer(Friday afternoon)

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >> The way these were sent is a bit ambiguous... based on counting the 
> braces
> >> and so on, I *believe* it's to be three separate proposals. So:
> > -That was the idea, yep.-
> >>
> >> "Now, Then, Where Was I?" is 836/0.
> >> "On the Rocks/Shaken, not Stirred" is 837/0.
> >> "Friends Don't Let Friends Play Nomic Drunk" is 838/0.
> >> (The two previous are rectified to add Std. Delim. and "Create a rule"
> >> clauses.)
> > -Er, oops. I see why they were ambiguous.-
>
> Technically, the 'Create a rule' clauses are unneccessary - we have a rule
> somewhere that states that if the proposal is nothing but what appears to 
> be
> the text of a rule, then it creates a rule with the proposal's title as the
> rule's title.
>
> The part that really made these three confusing was that A) The standard
> delimiters for proposals are double curly brackets, {{like this}}, not
> single ones { like this }, and B) they're technically supposed to be used
> only to delimit the texts of rules/proposals/CFI's/etc., not to delimit 
> each
> individual action of a proposal. Fortunately, the rules defining delimiters
> are flexible enough to allow these things to pass smoothly, but it would be
> helpful from the point of view of a human trying to read these to use the
> official delimiters.
>
> --
> Wonko
-Sorry, I thought the singles /were/ the official delimiters...-

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