Re: PhyloCode Discussion: Crowns, Panstems, and their Correspondence to each oth

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> It would be like deciding the code a fish as having brown hair for the
> character "hair - color - brown (0); black (1)".  The proper method
> is to code it as inapplicable.

Correct -- but impossible in PAUP*. I'd advocate to code the characters in a
way that minimizes inapplicable codings, like making one character for all
trigon morphologies, with absent = (0) and a stepmatrix to turn this into a
bi- or more -furcating ordered character. Or, of course, to use NONA, which
actually does treat "inapplicable" and "unknown" in different ways.