On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, comex wrote: > "Whether person X submitted a valid ballot on proposal Y" is not. It > is a statement incorporating the gamestate-- specifically, what the > Rules were at the time X attempted to submit the ballot-- but it is > not stored in the gamestate, and ratification cannot alter reality. > > "Whether proposal X was adopted" is also not part of the gamestate. > Either it was adopted at a certain time, or it was not, according to > the rules then. Ratification does not affect it at all.
I disagree. A dynamic system's state variables (versus rates/actions) are what you define them to be. For the above examples, rephrasing them as: "Proposal X's author is Y". or: "Proposal X is an adopted proposal". makes them part of the state. So just by saying "gamestate" and not defining further, anything can be part of that state. -G.
