Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] NWEEK 46 BALLOT

[SkArcher <SkArcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

31/07/2003 02:34:50, bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>On Wednesday 30 July 2003 09:16 pm, Daniel Lepage wrote:
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>> Personally, I feel that r1592 is a Bad Idea in general. There are many
>> situations when we might want a subgame to take up multiple rules; and
>> there's no reason why we can't put subgames into single rules anyway.
>> This is just an irritating restriction that does nothing until it
>> starts pissing us off.
>>
>> I was thinking about setting up a general structure for stones-laying
>> games - define a grid, a stone, etc., and things like Go and Othello
>> could use it to shorten their own definitions; but it falls apart
>> because of 1592, unless Go, Othello, and Ataxx are all in the same rule
>> (which is ugly and stupid).
>
>I agree, and propose:
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>__More is less__
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>Repeal rule 1592.
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r1592 is intended to stop the horrible sprawl of rules across the entire database that happened with the grid. If it happens with multiple subgames the rules 
base will become a huge mess of rubbish that is almost impossible to wade thru

If you don't like it in its current form, modify it, don't just repeal it and leave us open to the problem

SkArcher 


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