Jumps and Experience: Huh?

"At any time, a player may choose to jump to a square that he does not currently occupy and whose distance from his current square is less than or equal to his current Jumps value. The player's Jumps value is then decreased by the distance to the destination square and the player's Experience is increased by 1."

So if a player is on Square #1, has a jump of 4, and wants to travel to Square #5, they could either jump to Square #5 and get 1 experience, or they could jump to Square 2 then 3 then 4 then 5, and gain 4 experience.

Huh?

I mean, besides the fact experience is useless so far... maybe we should fix that and give experience a use?