On Thu, 21 May 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > OTOH, pledges have to be public now, so the pledge would have to be > published to take effect anyway. Agreeing in ##nomic to a non-pledge > private contract or to a public contract (with the fact published > later) is a different case.
If two players agree privately to a document that includes a clause "this is a public contract" (with the honest intent of publishing it afterwards), do you have a private contract which later becomes public, or no contract (until it is published)? -G.
