On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 17:02 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > You *could* read "I pay X to do Y" as a conditional, as in "I pay X, and > > if it doesn't make Y happen, I don't pay X". But that's not official in > > the rules. > > Transferring shinies to Agora and creating a Stamp as a result is > defined in rule 2498 as a type of action by announcement. So you do it > by saying that you do it.
If I say "I pay 100 shinies to Agora in order to fly to the moon" would it transfer or not - what do you think? (But I take your point: the stamps rule in particular is clearer than some of the other things that you can do by "spending", which isn't well-defined, I'd been looking through several of them to see the different wording).
