From: Jeff Weston (Sir Toby) (jjweston_at_kenny.sir-toby.com)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 19:06:33 PST
Renumbered from 200:3 to 200:4. On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Karl Low wrote: > It seems Leonhard forgot to mention that the phrase "precisely 200 > characters or symbols, no more, no less, including punctuation, but not > including spaces or other whitespace." is actually the long name of the > official FRC celebratory balloons. Perhaps if e had, it would have been > more understandable why e wanted everybody to have one in eir rule. Validity: This gets a little tricky now... The firework from 200:1 is still in the sky. It is still possible for subsequent Rules to be fashioned. It does not attempt to commence earlier than one second after the previous Rule. The Rule is NOT 200 characters (excluding whitespace) long, it is 293 characters (excluding whitespace) long, and so potentially runs afoul of 200:2. The Rule does not fire off any additional fireworks, so it is safe from 200:3's restriction. The tricky part is that it attempts to further clarify the restriction of 200:2. Since I am not terribly fond of the restriction in 200:2, I am certainly open to alternative interpretations of it. This would be a great idea if it occurred immediately after 200:2. However, Rule 200:3 has been posted in the meantime, and it has been declared Valid according to my original interpretation of the restriction in 200:2. The new interpretation would be inconsistent with Rule 200:3, as Rule 200:3 does not contain the phrase "precisely 200 characters or symbols, no more, no less, including punctuation, but not including spaces or other whitespace." Unfortunately, 200:4 doesn't appear to leave room for using either determination as needed for affected Rules. Since the author sent the Rule as 200:3, I assume that e was unaware that 200:3 had already been posted. Therefore, I declare this rule UNSUCCESSFUL. Style: +0.25 for advancing the theme. +0.25 for being short. -0.25 for not having a restriction of its own. +1.00 for taming the restriction in 200:2. Total style: +1.25 -- Jeff Weston (Sir Toby) -- Rule Date: 2003-01-14 03:06:56 GMT
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