[s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] RainbowWolfe submits p7

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 18, 2005, at 12.54 PM, automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> {{
> _Tidy Rules_
>
> If an amendment has a local affect(s), it is to be made in the rule or 
> section to which it refers. If the rule section doesn't already have 
> one, a 'Rule 0' may be created for the purposes of making such an 
> amendment.
> }}

I still don't quite understand. An amendment is just any change to the 
rules - we don't really keep track of them the way, say, Congress does. 
So what this seems to say is that an amendment which changes a rule in 
a given section must change the rule in that section, which is 
trivially true.

I think maybe you're imagining amendments the way Congress or other 
major legal bodies do them, where the amendment is just a body of text 
rephrasing the law, and the "ruleset" thus contains all past versions 
of all laws, just with newer blocks superseding older ones. We haven't 
been tracking amendments the same way - we just have the Ruleset 
containing the current versions of all Rules, and any change to a rule 
simply replaces it with the newer version. We could do it the other 
way, and it makes more sense for important things like legal codes, but 
when it's just the rules to a game I think they're easier to read if 
you just have to look at the current rules.

Or I could be completely misinterpreting your proposal. What would a 
"rule 0" be used for?

--
Wonko

 It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have 
flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.

  --quoted in Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)

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