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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <5178884b$0$29977$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>  Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> I don't see why you would need anything like that. Reading further on, I
>> see that you are counting unimplemented rules as true, for some reason
>> which I don't understand.
>
> The top-level logic we need to enforce is "this configuration doesn't
> violate any rules".

Then have your unimplemented rules simply return True. Easy!

ChrisA