On 5/12/07, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There shall exist a type of entity known as a Currency Owning Entity
(hereafter COE).
I would recommend using a different name, or a different abbreviation.
For many years COE was used as an official abbreviation for Claim of
Error. Even though that no longer has official recognition, it's
still a good idea to avoid it.
Every COE has a value Currency.
While doing things this way does avoid dealing with fungibility, I'd
prefer Agoran Dollars being discrete objects held by COEs, rather than
being mere features of COEs.
This is a non-negative
integer value. One unit of Currency is known as an Agoran Dollar. An amount
of Currency can be represented using the dollar sign ($). Fractional values
of Currency shall be rounded to the nearest Integer.
It looks like you intend Currency to be discrete ``at bottom''. Maybe
something like the following would work?
Currency is a non-negative integral number of Agoran Dollars. The
symbol for the Agoran Dollar is the Dollar Sign, written $. A
quantity of Agoran Dollars that would otherwise be non-integral
shall be interpreted as that quantity of Agoran Dollars rounded to
the nearest integer.
Currency is owned by the COE who possesses it. A COE may transfer Currency
they own
This is just a style issue, but it's more common in Agora to use the
Spivak pronouns (``may transfer Currency e owns'') rather than the
singular ``they''. I should not that it is *not* required that you do
so. In particular, our Mighty First Speaker Michael tended to use
singular ``they'' instead of the Spivak pronouns.
to another COE freely by making an announcement to the Public
Forum.
Here I have a couple of questions, though. First, since Currency is a
value (and apparently just a natural number), what does it mean to
transfer Currency?
Second, does the announcement of a COE who wishes to transfer Currency
have to take any particular form? If not, how is it to be
distinguished from other actions performed publicly? I suggest
revising this to
A COE may freely transfer any specified amount of Currency to
another COE by announcement.
This ensures that the donating entity must post something along the
lines of ``I transfer 8$ to foo' in order to transfer Currency.
When a COE is instructed to pay Currency or Agoran Dollars to another
COE, the specified amount of Currency is deducted from eir total and added
to the other COE's total.
It might be more interesting (and give another reason to start
rebuilding criminal law) if being instructed to pay Currency only
imposed a requirement to pay rather than it happening automatically.
Currency is regulated by the rules and may not be created or destroyed by
any means except through a proposal with an Acceptability Index equal to or
higher than this rule's power.
What is an Acceptability Index?
Whenever a Player registers, Currency shall be created in the amount of
$1,000 and given to em. When a Player de-registers, any Currency they
possess shall be destroyed.
What does it mean to create or destroy Currency?
--
C. Maud Image (Michael Slone)
I dance the dance of the objectionable; no, that's not right...
I dance the mysteriously frowning dance of the objecting.
-- Michael, in agora-discussion
