On 7/12/2019 12:06 AM, omd wrote:
In any case, the omission is enough of a crack to wedge Rule 217 factors into*, and "common sense" very strongly suggests that N is expected to be a number. As such, I judge that it must be. It is less clear what kinds of numbers are allowable values for N, but that issue need not be decided in this case, since "I'm a string!" is clearly not one.
In terms of "what kind of number", you might get some mileage out of this part of R2509, in that a Fine must be a whole number of blots (strongly implicit in R2557), so that a "Class N Crime" implicitly refers to a "number of items": > A "number of (items)", where > (items) is a set of discrete entities, is considered to refer to a > non-negative integer, unless otherwise explicitly specified.
