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Re:Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law by rayiner on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:02AM (#34161012)
It’s like the difference between the ISO C++ specification and “the C++ Programming Language” book. The book will help you understand the specification, but the specification stands alone.
Re:Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law by phpisthebest on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:56AM (#34161526)
My understanding of the issue not like that at all, to extend your analogy it would be like if ISO published the Spec, but then every compiler used things only found in the C++ Programming Book to compile your programs, and any error codes were only found in the book

To bring it back to the Law, the official code was the Annotated Version which means that is what Judges, and Prosecutors would be referencing when looking at if you broke the law, what sentence you have, etc.

Re:Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law by smegsicle on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:25PM (#34169538)
like how ISO publishes drafts for free, but charges for the final specification, so everyone just ends up implementing the most recent draft?