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What is the comment syntax in magical spells?
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Question triggered by a random neural firing...
What is the comment syntax in magical spells?
@cazabon oh our personal headcanon is there really isn't one because ...... all mortal undertakings are collaborations with the universe, it provides the possibility and we provide the structure and meaning, but the versions of magic we find fun are, like........ the universe's role is larger than it is in, say, mathematics
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@cazabon oh our personal headcanon is there really isn't one because ...... all mortal undertakings are collaborations with the universe, it provides the possibility and we provide the structure and meaning, but the versions of magic we find fun are, like........ the universe's role is larger than it is in, say, mathematics
@cazabon and the universe doesn't know "oh, yeah, this part is just an explanation with no side effects" because that's a human concept. anything you do as part of a magic spell, in this view, could have an effect, even if it's meant to not.
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@cazabon oh our personal headcanon is there really isn't one because ...... all mortal undertakings are collaborations with the universe, it provides the possibility and we provide the structure and meaning, but the versions of magic we find fun are, like........ the universe's role is larger than it is in, say, mathematics
Oh, the connection between magic and mathematics is well known. @cstross has written a fair bit about events involving applied computational demonology, for example.
If there really is no comment syntax for magic spells, that's unfortunate. It means practitioners probably end up scrawling their notes to themselves as marginalia, and I don't know if the magic could leak across from the main spell or what undesirable side-effects that might have.
#magic #spell #mathematics #computation #AppliedComputationalDemonology #ComputationalDemonology #marginalia #oops #SideEffect
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Oh, the connection between magic and mathematics is well known. @cstross has written a fair bit about events involving applied computational demonology, for example.
If there really is no comment syntax for magic spells, that's unfortunate. It means practitioners probably end up scrawling their notes to themselves as marginalia, and I don't know if the magic could leak across from the main spell or what undesirable side-effects that might have.
#magic #spell #mathematics #computation #AppliedComputationalDemonology #ComputationalDemonology #marginalia #oops #SideEffect
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Question triggered by a random neural firing...
What is the comment syntax in magical spells?
@cazabon If there are magic languages (for ordering reality about) then it follows that there must be *non-magic* languages, like whatever it is tax agencies useto write the income tax rules in. So a spell could contain sequences in a tongue free of magical effects. Although you might end up being prosecuted for tax evasion by a peevish imp from HMRC.
