Kerim Aydin wrote:
Announcements are both statements in their own rights and (sometimes) actions.
In the past, we've accepted "I do X" as an action, but we've also accepted
"I hereby announce that I do X" as an action. Both, by Agoran Custom, do
the Same Thing.
The latter statement, conveniently enough, is true regardless of whether
or not the action succeeds.
If accepting the truth/falseness of actions based on their success/failure
leads to different consequences for what appear to be terms of art in
announcement style shows just how absurd taking this position is (or would
be if codified).
Quite. This is the point I tried to make with my post about prefixing
every action statement with "I attempt to". (Not that "I hereby
announce" has the same meaning; it's even better.)
So, please do drop this idea of making actions statements.
Independently, you might feel free to legislate against people
attempting to perform impossible actions if there is an attempt to
deceive, or whatever the current thinking is on that front.
Michael - and then you might drop partnerships too...
