Subject: Nomic: precedence

From: Joel Uckelman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:04:15 -0500

With regard to a rule precedence system, here are some possibilities that I see:

1. Provide no explicit method for resolving rule conflicts. This could be very interesting. It would put a heavy burden on the judiciary to interpret the rules.

2. Use the mutable/immutable, last-changed system we had in Berserker. It wasn't a *bad* system, though how we numbered the initial ruleset would be very important.

3. Develop some other sort of system, possibly with more than two tiers of precedence (Agora has 3; some other nomic, the name of which escapes me, uses the positive integers), or just something else entirely.

Thoughts?
-- 
J.