Saturday, April 19, 2025

Call for Judgment: An Orderly Way to Describe a List

Add the following to “Numbers and Variables”

Unless otherwise specified, a list can contain repeated elements, the elements of a list remain in the order in which they were added to the list, and when an item is added to a list, it is added to the end.

Unless otherwise specified, a set or collection cannot contain repeated elements, and when an item is added to a set or collection, it is added alphabetically (if its text based), in increasing order (if its is numeric) or at the end (in any other circumstances).

At their earliest convenience, the Concierge should inform all Agents who had a non-empty Discovery during the most recent Breaking In of their Discovery, using the above definition of a list.

I found Clucky’s use of the words “ordered” and “unordered” to be confusing and somewhat contradictory. This lays out the ordering of lists, sets, and collections in a more explicit way.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

19-04-2025 20:49:55 UTC

If Kevan doesn’t enact this, I don’t think the last part will work since it can’t be carried out immediately by any other admin who enacts it. We’d need a rule that can be repealed after being performed once.

Clucky: he/him

19-04-2025 21:47:03 UTC

My thinking was that the order of a collection shouldn’t matter. The alphabetical nature is a way to obscure when stuff is added to it. This might be good enough though.

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