On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> All you need to do now is put the above disclaimer in ALL CAPS and add
> it to each function and method in the standard.
>
> It is not, after all, actually *specified* anywhere that the result of
> evaluating 3 + 4 cannot have the side effect of setting the global
> variable "Ludolf" to 3.141592653.
If your point is that no disclaimer text is needed here at all, as I
stated earlier, I would be happy with that. However, the implication
would be conformance to the algorithmic spec as written, which Allen
objects to as overspecifying. A blanket "anything may happen"
disclaimer as in the current draft spec fatally underspecifies.
Allen's text here is a nice compromise.
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Cheers,
--MarkM
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