Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Nweek 42 BALLOT

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 10:36  PM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 5/28/03 at 8:04 PM Mark Karasek wrote:
>
> > > > Proposal 1549/0: Pseudocode (The Pusher Robot)
> > > NO - Even if this passed, you would still get kicked in the ass every
> > > time you did it, because Pseudocode is inherently annoying to anyone 
> > > who
> > > honestly couldn't give a damn about coding. I'd encourage you to 
> > > declare
> > > this fatally flawed.
> >
> > I don't really see how pseudocode is any more annoying than poetry or 
> > song
> > form. If anything, it should be easier to understand. (Perl, on the 
> > other
> > hand, I can understand, and I imagine I'll try and stay away from 
> > doing
> > that again. After all, God speaks in Perl, so I'm not surprised that 
> > some
> > mere mortals have difficulty with it ;-) ) Besides, you shouldn't 
> > worry,
> > it'll fail anyway.
>
> That wasn't quite eir point.  I believe if you declare a proposal to 
> be fatally flawed you don't take the same loss as if it was defeated.

Fatal declarations do nothing if the prop fails anyway; it's just that 
if you declare it Flawed, and it passes, it gets shelved instead. You 
can't get out of the failed-prop penalty just by letting everyone know 
you think it should fail too.

--
Wonko

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