[blml] Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

[Steve Willner]

> From: richard.hills at immi.gov.au
> That is, Steve's proposed law change
[that correct answers to opponents' questions should be AI]

Change of interpretation, I think, not Law.

> would mean that the East-West side ...
> would be in a Catch-22 situation, either:
> (a) suffering through East's ignorance of the North-South
>     methods, or 
> (b) suffering through East giving an opponent an AI reminder
>     of their North-South methods.

And now it's my turn to mention _petitio principii_.  Why exactly is 
this a bad thing?  Or more particularly, why is it worse than the 
alternative?

From: "Grattan Endicott" <grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk>
> current Law 40E2 - in particular   ".... at his own turn to call 
> or play...". Reading this literally it does not exclude for an SO 
> the possibility of a 40E1 regulation authorizing the player to 
> look, in given circumstances, at someone else's turn.

Oh, indeed so!  I'm embarrassed that I didn't see it.

I'm not entirely sure the idea would make the game better, but it would 
indeed be legal as far as I can tell.