On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:16 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, ais523 wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:01 -0700, Charles Reiss wrote: > >> I also support the appeal of CFJ 2086-7. As root has stated, > >> long-standing game custom allows the actions of a message to have some > >> ordering in legal time even though they take effect at the same > >> instant of physical time. (I do not believe that tusho's arguments > >> have merit: although a light that is turning on may be neither off or > >> on, it is one of on or not on.) > > Rule 478 is very clear that multiple actions by announcement in the same > > message happen simultaneously. > > "Simultaneous" doesn't appear there, or elsewhere in such a context.
If two things happen at the same time, they're simultaneous by definition. Rule 478 specifies that the actions happen at the time datestamped on the message, which is the same for all actions taken in the same message. -- ais523
