Re: [spoon-discuss] Too quiet, bd?

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

> Are you trying to do the Forth thang, and rewrite the entire ruleset as one 
> big rule?  Interesting, but impractical, unlikely to pass and unnecessary.
>
> Impractical because unless you're gonna come up with rule-adding mechanisms 
> that force new rule text to be part of The Big One, the grand unification 
> will become ununified every nweek.
-Not to mention that the Ruleset already IS a single object, so rather than 
make a complex system, just find a definition that fits the current state of 
things.-
> Unlikely to pass because Big Change is generally feared.  A person looks at 
> a nine-page prop, picks his jaw up off the floor, and, after the third 
> pass, wonders what there is in it that he's missing...what hidden loophole 
> is embedded in it that gives its proponent an insta-win.
-Like bd's Less is More: Voting, for example. (BTW, bd, that was very 
clever, just slimy.) For the newbies: bd rewrote voting, but hid a few 
clauses that would have given him supreme power over what passed and 
failed.-
> Unnecessary because, okay, you've got everything in one big rule, 
> identified by subsections, with nested scope.  How is that fundamentally 
> different from bunches of smaller rules, identified by numbers, with nested 
> precedence?
-Again, back to my first thing. Redefine what we have without changing it.-
> Not to discourage you.  I was toying with the idea of a game dictionary 
> today myself.  It's got promise.  But I think you'll have more luck (and, 
> for that matter, get more points) by making a fairly empty framework first, 
> then moving things into the framework on a piecemeal basis.
>
> Something I wondered about once before...If the entire ruleset winds up in 
> a single rule object, how can it be stored in a database?  Or can it?
-Duct tape.-
> 						Glotmorf

                                                  -BvS-


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