Re: [spoon-discuss] about society fixing

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/5/02 at 5:16 PM Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:

>>From: bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>What I want to see isa formalized nomic language. Failing that, a
>reduction
>>in
>>amibiguity.
>>
>>[[ Formalized nomic example:
>>
>>proposal[1234].vote(YES);
>>
>>Or:
>>
>>new proposal() = {
>>	new rule(Chutzpah := 5, keywords := [Instarule, blah, etc]) = {
>>		hook(grid.move, { (x,y) := moveto }) = {
>>			if (moveto == (1,1)) {
>>				return false; // It is illegal to enter (1,1)
>>			}
>>			else
>>			{
>>				return hook.next(); // Let the next hook take care of things
>>			}
>>		}
>>	}
>>}
>
>Well, I've thought about actually making the rules be code like that,
>since
>my prop was likened to C++.  However, I just don't think that that's the
>best thing for this nomic.  This is not C++Nomic, CNomic, or JavaNomic.
>It's BNomic, and I think most of us would like to keep it that way.
>
>However, I have seriously considered setting up a system like that.
>Perhaps
>we could collaborate and make a new Nomic based on a particular language.
>If we do, I'd prefer Java, as it, along with Assembly, is one of my
>favorite
>languages, and won't have a lot of computer-related baggage.  Perhaps we
>could even link it somehow with BNomic, giving our Ambassador something to
>put in the BiWeekly.  Well, let me finish the uber-prop first, and maybe
>we
>can do this.
>
>As for a prerelease, not yet.  I'm still going over large sections of it,
>revising it, and making it better.  Also, I've had a couple of fundamental
>changes, and may have more in the future.  Right now it would only make
>sense to me.  Once I have it ironed out a bit, I'll make another
>prerelease
>for my web page.
>
>One more thing -- I just watched Nova, a PBS show about new discoveries in
>science, and the wonders of it, and it got my imagination going.  As soon
>as
>I'm done with this, I have some really neat ideas for enhancing the game.

How about basing it on Forth?  Have a few initial keywords/functions, and defining it all from there?

						Glotmorf


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