Are the "Initiative Consequences of..." for Readied and Delayed actions misleading?

[Urath DM]

A response in the thread [url="http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2t7bu?Additional-swift-actions"Additional Swift Actions[/url] asserts that you can take a Swift Action before Readying another Swift Action.

This seems to violate the limit of one Swift Action per turn, but...

the wording of the "Initiative Consequences of ..." sections in both the Delay and Ready rules seem to contain artifacts of the earlier, more structured initiative uses with a specific end-of-round that was used for status effects and other bookkeeping adjustments.

PRD Quotes of Delay and Ready:

Pathfinder Reference Document wrote:

Delay
By choosing to delay, you take no action and then act normally on whatever initiative count you decide to act. When you delay, you voluntarily reduce your own initiative result for the rest of the combat. When your new, lower initiative count comes up later in the same round, you can act normally. You can specify this new initiative result or just wait until some time later in the round and act then, thus fixing your new initiative count at that point.

You never get back the time you spend waiting to see what's going to happen. You also can't interrupt anyone else's action (as you can with a readied action).

Initiative Consequences of Delaying: Your initiative result becomes the count on which you took the delayed action. If you come to your next action and have not yet performed an action, you don't get to take a delayed action (though you can delay again).

If you take a delayed action in the next round, before your regular turn comes up, your initiative count rises to that new point in the order of battle, and you do not get your regular action that round.

Ready
The ready action lets you prepare to take an action later, after your turn is over but before your next one has begun. Readying is a standard action. It does not provoke an attack of opportunity (though the action that you ready might do so).

Readying an Action: You can ready a standard action, a move action, a swift action, or a free action. To do so, specify the action you will take and the conditions under which you will take it. Then, anytime before your next action, you may take the readied action in response to that condition. The action occurs just before the action that triggers it. If the triggered action is part of another character's activities, you interrupt the other character. Assuming he is still capable of doing so, he continues his actions once you complete your readied action. Your initiative result changes. For the rest of the encounter, your initiative result is the count on which you took the readied action, and you act immediately ahead of the character whose action triggered your readied action.

You can take a 5-foot step as part of your readied action, but only if you don't otherwise move any distance during the round.

Initiative Consequences of Readying: Your initiative result becomes the count on which you took the readied action. If you come to your next action and have not yet performed your readied action, you don't get to take the readied action (though you can ready the same action again). If you take your readied action in the next round, before your regular turn comes up, your initiative count rises to that new point in the order of battle, and you do not get your regular action that round.

Distracting Spellcasters: You can ready an attack against a spellcaster with the trigger "if she starts casting a spell." If you damage the spellcaster, she may lose the spell she was trying to cast (as determined by her concentration check result).

Readying to Counterspell: You may ready a counterspell against a spellcaster (often with the trigger "if she starts casting a spell"). In this case, when the spellcaster starts a spell, you get a chance to identify it with a Spellcraft check (DC 15 + spell level). If you do, and if you can cast that same spell (and are able to cast it and have it prepared, if you prepare spells), you can cast the spell as a counterspell and automatically ruin the other spellcaster's spell. Counterspelling works even if one spell is divine and the other arcane.

A spellcaster can use dispel magic to counterspell another spellcaster, but it doesn't always work.

Readying a Weapon against a Charge: You can ready weapons with the brace feature, setting them to receive charges. A readied weapon of this type deals double damage if you score a hit with it against a charging character.

In both cases, the text addresses delaying or not having your readied action triggered until your next turn comes around in the initiative. But they also include text referring to taking your actions in the "next round"... which cannot happen with cyclical initiative... the round for each character is until your initiative comes up again.

I believe this is the basis of the assertion that you can take a Swift action, then ready another Swift action.. because it implies "your turn" has ended and you can get in two Swift actions this way.

Should this wording be clarified?

[Avoron]

Speaking as the poster in question, the basis for readying a swift action is much simpler than you're making it out to be; when the round begins or end doesn't really matter.

Swift Action wrote:

You can perform only a single swift action per turn.

Readying an Action wrote:

You can ready a standard action, a move action, a swift action, or a free action.

Ready wrote:

The ready action lets you prepare to take an action later, after your turn is over but before your next one has begun.

This clearly indicates that you can ready a swift action to take place outside of your turn, and that does not interact at all with the limitation of one swift action per turn.

The "initiative consequences" section doesn't affect that at all, it just tells you the consequences for your initiative. Your initiative changes to whatever initiative count you took your action on. If your action was immediately after your turn, your initiative does not meaningfully change.

The "next round" phrasing is simply referring to when the sequence of initiative counts reaches the end and starts over at the beginning, and it's just stating that your initiative changes to whenever you took the action, regardless of whether it's later in the initiative order or earlier in the next run-through of the initiative order.

"Your turn" and "the round" are very distinct things, especially in the context of readied actions, which explicitly occur outside of your turn.

I'm not really sure what you're proposing be clarified.