Re: [s-d] Wiki updated

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:46 PM, comex <comexk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've updated the Rules and Players pages to partially account for the
> > RP passing.  One thing of note-- I don't see any reason that all the
> > old macks were destroyed... the comment mentions that they would be,
>
> The old macks weren't objects. How "many" you had was the value of a
> Property (with a Scope of all COOs and a Range of all natural numbers,
> IIRC) and Properties were stupid and were (rightfully, I think)
> destroyed by the refresh.


I'd agree that Attributes were somewhat useless and led to unnecessary
verbosity. I don't see how Properties, in particular, however, were any
different from what we now call Switches.

>
>
> > Welcome to Era 5 of B Nomic!  Nearly identical to Era 4, but More
> > Broken.  For example, I don't think Essential-ness actually does
> > anything.
>
> I'd say less broken, but likely more buggy - the new stuff hasn't been
> tested out yet, so we don't know where its problems are, but it does
> not have known fatal errors that would force an emergency aside from
> the fact that all our ministries are empty. (Essentialness, I believe,
> is just an easy way to search the wiki for the "core" rules - not
> necessary, but harmless and probably occasionally convenient.)


Nope, essentialness doesn't do anything. But I think it's good to have it
there as it could easily lead to passing proposals specifying things like:
- essential rules take precedence over non-essentials
- essential rules can only be amended/repealed by proposal with
supermajority support
etc. things that don't apply to essential rules yet, but very well could
eventually.

Also, all macks were destroyed because the very first sentence in the passed
RP was "All macks are hereby destroyed."

BP
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