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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
> There are many words that in one case the interpretive definition is
> undefined. Not illegal but undefined so how they are treated varies
> all over the place;

Hmm, so you're saying there are gaps in the standard that can't be
filled because any fix would break somebody's existing code somewhere.
OK I guess that's a problem.  The standard failing to specify how to do
something is different than it specifying doing something bad, but I see
why it's still not always easy to fix.