[r-t] Extension

[Don Morrison]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Mark Davies <mark at snowtiger.net> wrote:
> Now, I am most certainly with Philip Earis in that I don't believe
> there is a single, fixed way of generating extensions. But I'm not
> with him, Peter and Alan in thinking this means we shouldn't try and
> find good algorithms for generating extensions.

The problem, however, is that we are currently in a situation where the
authorities have said "we think this is a good algorithm AND NO OTHER
ALGORITHMS MAY BE USED."

Just like algorithms for extensions, there are many, for all practical
purposes infinitely many, good ways of writing poetry. When someone says
"it's only a poem if it's in iambic pentameter, ottava rima, and no
enjambment" we've got a problem.



-- 
Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
"The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower; / And swing
I know not where."     -- Hart Crane, _The Broken Tower_
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