[rfk-dev] I'll make a new vanilla NKI list

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Nov 5 10:15:06 PST 2012


Peter A. H. Peterson <pedro at tastytronic.net>:
> Quoting Stephen:
> > ... I would be pretty okay with a special case allowing "Haven't you
> > touched this before?" to appear a maximum of twice, on the other
> > hand.
> 
> I agree with Leonard that this would be OK, and I get why it is funny,
> but I'm not sure I think it would be an improvement. And, enabling it
> would require a method to mark the "meta NKIs" allowed to be sourced
> twice which adds complication to something that is otherwise pretty
> elegant. It's not that it's hard, but I'm just not sure it's worth it.

I think it isn't.

But while we're talking new features, I have one in mind.  How about an
object that, when the robot bumps it, teleports him to a random (empty)
location?  Would be easy to do...
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