[Nomic] Proposal

[Adam Biltcliffe]

On Sep 22 2004, Martin O'Leary wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 21:55, Adam Biltcliffe wrote:
> >  X is assigned only when a rule is added to the rules; Y must be 
> > specified along with the text of the rule when it is first proposed. 
> > All rules, when referring to other rules, must use the full name of the 
> > rule in question.
> 
> This becomes a problem when one wishes to propose a set of rules which
> refer to each other. Unless you can guess precisely which numbers these
> rules are going to be assigned, you can't know their full name and thus
> can't refer to them.

Bah, I deleted the clause from that paragraph specifying that rules can 
legally be referred to by name only until they are added to the rules on 
the grounds that the rules wouldn't refer to them until that happened. 
Valid point, although I'm not sure that there are that many circumstances 
where rules need to refer to simultaneously-proposed rules explicitly; it 
seems it'd come up more often when you need to describe an exception to 
some rule added long ago.

Note that I haven't objected to The Rule of Names yet (not that any such 
objection would have actual force in the game anyway); if you really want 
to try a game in which rules are referenced exclusively by name then I 
could probably be persuaded to give it a go.

adam