On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root: >> To put it in algebraic terms, "FOO" expands to a vote. The >> multiplication multiplies the number of votes. I don't see what's >> ambiguous about that. > The fact that FOO might not be a constant. It's ambiguous whether you're > multiplying the result of the expansion of one mention of FOO, or if you're > generating 5 separate copies of FOO, which isn't even a vote. > > Let me expand BobTHJ's sell ticket literally, fixing the grammar: > > "[I] post[ing] a Sell > Ticket with a cost of 5VP and vot[e/ing] to endorse the filler of that > ticket x5" > > Notice where the x5 ends up after the expansion. That looks awfully to me > like voting x5, based on one Sell Ticket. > > The ambiguity is in whether the SELL(5VP) or the x5 is expanded first. You > seem to think the x5 is expanded first, but I still can't see any evidence > for this view.
It's not a macro. The agreement clearly refers to SELL(5VP) as being a conditional vote. -root
