Proposal: Coping with changing definitions [Appendix]
Reached quorum 8 votes to 1 with 1 unresolved DEF. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 28 May 2020 15:57:10 UTC
After the seventh bullet point in “Numbers and Variables”, add a new bullet point:
- If the rules that define a game variable are amended, and some previously valid values become invalid as a consequence, any existing variables whose current values would become invalid are instead set to their starting value.
This is a situation that’s easy enough to bring about by accident, and has an easy enough fix, so we may as well put the fix into the rules.
I don’t like this as a good one-size-fits-all solution, and would prefer to do what makes the most sense in a given scenario and CfJ if necessary. What if dollars is originally an integer that can go negative, I spend a million, and then it’s defined to be non-negative, so I get the million back for free?
Josh: Observer he/they