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  • From: "David Kowis" <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel sorcery & gaze new functionality
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:44:33 -0600 (CST)

At this very moment Schrodinger's spell is dead, and Schrodinger's spell
is not dead.

Sorry... :)
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<quote who="Seth Alan Woolley">
> I think the distinction between sorcery and gaze is that sorcery allows
> you to do and set things, and gaze allows you to view things in a
> read-only manner.
>
> Sorcery is an action with side-effects. Gazing is merely observing
> (ignore the minor perturbations of quantum mechanics).
>
> Perhaps scribe should be used to set stuff with sorcery remaining as the
> menu/gui tool.
>
> Seth
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:58:08PM -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
>> Thanks Seth, I didn't mean to pick on anybody!
>> Was it ever expressed in the forums that the use of "sorcery" vs "gaze"
>> becomes more and more confusing, even to those who used it for a long
>> time, like me? I wonder if I'm alone here.
>>
>> Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
>>
>> >I think it was meant in terms of "intersection" as in "perpendicular"
>> as
>> >opposed to the "statistically independent" meaning.
>> >
>> >"gaze show-" would be the intersection point.
>> >
>> >I think the prefixing was done that way to put them in the manual so as
>> >to be near each other instead of scattered about on the first level, or
>> >rather, I think the real answer is that it was like that in sorcery
>> >before it was moved into gaze.
>> >
>> >Seth
>> >
>> >On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:29:17PM -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>And I thought we're trying to be "parallel," 'cause "orthogonal"
>> usually
>> >>means "contrary to" or "regardless of" ;-D. FWIW, my variant is
>> shorter...
>> >>
>> >>Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:18:26PM +0100, neuron wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:48:08AM -0800, Andrew wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich
>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>Why not simply "gaze exiled" or even "gaze exile" (it's both a
>> >>>>>>verb and a noun)?
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>I think we were trying to be orthoganol to gaze show-held
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>Exactly :)
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>Well, not quite "exactly". I thought it was spelled "orthogonal".
>> >>>
>> >>>Seth
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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