Re: [spoon-discuss] The Grid

[SkArcher <SkArcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

01/07/2003 18:17:48, Iain Scott <iop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>>
>>I tried to write a proposal that would do that. About an hour and a half 
>>later, having managed to work my way through the first two or three 
>>subsections of rule 301, I gave up.
>>
>>At this point, in order to turn the Grid into something new, we would 
>>effectively have to rewrite everything in the rule; trying to do this 
>>while we still have the old parts lying around is asking for disaster, as 
>>old things that are no longer compatible with new things will come into 
>>conflict. The end result should be the same, but the path there will be 
>>much easier if we destroy the old rules first.
>
>I suppose what you could do is propose:
>
>{
><repeal everything in p1575 except r301>
>Replace r301 with <new stuff>
>}
>
>This keeps some sort of continuity with the old grid, in form if not 
>substance...
>

I'd rather have the old grid sealed away somewhere so that we can look back at it and go 'ahh' - plus, if 
everything in the rule is new, then it deserves its own status.


SkArcher


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