Re: [s-d] proposal parser

[Antonio Dolcetta <antonio.dolcetta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Lepage wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Antonio Dolcetta wrote:
> 
>>> In the second message, I am in fact amending an existing proposal,
>>> but it's *not* the one that already was named "Let There Be Foo". So
>>> for a moment, there are two proposals named "Let There Be Foo".
>> There is no such moment, this happens simultaneously.
> 
> "Simultaneously in order", though, and the proposal manager would  
> presumably do them in order; if it crashes at that point then things  
> are bad.

It wouldn't crash, but yes you would end up with the wrong proposal 
numbers. Some sort of manual intervention would be required.

> 
>> And it is ambiguous even to a human whether you are amending the
>> proposal titles or the proposal texts.
> 
> It's not ambiguous because I refer to them specifically in terms of  
> the order they were made. This is important because the first one in  
> the message is numbered first, and thus has a lower proposal number.

yes I see it now

> 
>> And in any case you end up with the same ending state (with possibly
>> swapped proposal numbers, but that's surely not very important as long
>> as they are unique)
> 
> Swapping proposal numbers is the whole point. Proposals take effect  
> in order by number, so if Boxes of Foo are handed out before they  
> exists, it's not clear what happens. Thus, the order in the original  
> message is wrong, and the purpose of the swap is to change the order  
> in which they will happen.
> 

You're right.
I wasn't thinking.




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