Contracts cannot do things on their own, which is why they have to have an
agent to effect any actual change. But they can obligate a player to do
something since they're basically a block of rule text that you get to
choose if you want to follow.
On Feb 14, 2018 21:46, "Gaelan Steele" <g...@canishe.com> wrote:
> Contract doesn’t give power. Contract obligates me to pend a proposal
> which, if adopted, gives power to some or all of its sub-proposals.
>
> Gaelan
>
> > On Feb 14, 2018, at 8:32 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Can a contract give power to anything?
> >
> >> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Gaelan Steele wrote:
> >> ttttDf
> >>
> >>> On Feb 14, 2018, at 7:58 PM, Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This contract accepts shinies as long as it has fewer than ((Pend
> Cost) + 1) shines. It accepts no other assets.
> >>>
> >>> This contract maintains a piece of state known as the Proposal Puddle,
> containing a set of micro-proposals each consisting of a title, adoption
> index, author, and body of 50 words or fewer.
> >>>
> >>> A proposal cycle is the period between the publication of two Promotor
> reports containing the contents of the Proposal Pool.
> >>>
> >>> Any player may add a micro-proposal to the Proposal Puddle by
> transferring one shiny to this contract if it is currently accepting
> shinies, or by announcement otherwise. Each player may do this no more than
> twice per proposal cycle.
> >>>
> >>> Once per proposal cycle, Gaelan SHALL create and pend a proposal with
> the following properties:
> >>>
> >>> Title: Any title containing “Micro-Proposals”
> >>> Author: Gaelan
> >>> Co-authors: The set of all players who authored one or more
> micro-proposals in the Proposal Puddle
> >>> Adoption Index: The maximum Adoption Index of any micro-proposal in
> the Proposal Puddle
> >>> Text: The below text, followed by the contents of the Proposal Puddle.
> >>> {
> >>> For each of the micro-proposals below:
> >>> 1. Resolve the votes cast on the micro-proposal as if it were an
> Agoran Decision for a full proposal, taking into account votes from all
> players.
> >>> 2. If the result of the resolution is FOR, give the micro-proposal
> power equal to its Adoption Index.
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Once each proposal cycle after pending this proposal, Gaelan may cause
> this contract to transfer to em the Pend Cost in shines.
> >>
> >>
>
>
