[BNomic-Public] ideas...

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:52:51 -0500

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On Tuesday 16 December 2003 03:03 pm, Daniel Lepage wrote:
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> 	Actions could also be submitted by email, using some sort of markup
> lanuage. Once upon a time, we frequently specified proposals and cfis
> and whatnot like this:
> <proposal>
> <title> Oops </title>
> <body>
> 	Give each player 20 points.
> </body>
> </proposal>
>
> A simple XML parser could turn that into a proposal object;

Not XML. Eventually someone's going to forget to escape < or &.

> such
> objects could also be generated by the website. The target service
> could be deduced from the website - if it was sent from the proposal
> submission page, presumably it's a proposal - or from the mail subject
> header, so that a mail with [PGo] in the subject would be sent
> automatically to the Political Go engine.
> 	Regardless, the created action object could then be sent to wherever
> it belonged, proposals to the prop engine, Tunnelers moves to
> Glotmorf's scripts, etc. The scripts would then tell the main Guild
> script who to notify about what.

Oh, I see, proposals become essentially programs in themselves? Interesting=
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idea. You'd want to allow all the scripts to be downloaded to allow props t=
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be tested, of course.

[snip]
> Once that were in place, a great many things could plug into it.

Sounds like a good idea. Nothing like a crisis to stimulate innovation, eh?

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