[r-t] Poll on consecutive blows in the same position

[Mark Davies]

Don writes,

> "Method" needs to describe the whole, broad class. When we want to
> talk about just the lead-based subset of that class, we need to state
> that explicitly.

Why are you so fixed on the word "method", Don? The rule-based 
constructions were originally called Dixonoids when they were recently 
popularised (I think on this list). Why must they be called methods, in 
your view - what is special about that term?

It seems to me to be more useful to use specific words for specific 
meanings. Most modern ringers (I believe, maybe we should have a poll) 
would say that "method" implies a construction based on a fixed lead, 
not a rule. A set of call changes isn't a method. A composition isn't a 
method. A dixonoid is somewhere between a method and a composition, 
perhaps. In the 17th century it might have been called a "peal".

MBD