Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Prop: layers

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/12/03 at 1:43 AM Rob Speer wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:06:40AM -0500, Glotmorf wrote:
>> The difference is that chutzpah should indicate the general importance
>of a rule within that rule's class, whereas some classes of rules should
>always be more important.  Rules controlling the voting process, for
>example, should be at a higher layer than grid rules, but some voting
>rules are more important than other voting rules, and some grid rules are
>more important than other grid rules.
>
>Even important rules need to be overrided once in a while.
>
>For example, the Grid rule is more important than the Weather rule, but
>to forbid certain actions that are permitted in the Grid rule when it's
>raining Cats and Dogs, it has to take precedence over the Grid rule.

Perhaps the answer in that case isn't chutzpah, ID or layers.  Perhaps in that case the weather rule should be broken into two pieces -- one that takes precedence over the grid rule and one that doesn't.  If, in fact, there's some piece of the weather rule that needs to defer to the grid rule.

						Glotmorf

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