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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by MichaelGG on Monday October 27, 2014 @06:55PM (#8518651)
Every appearance of SHOULD/MAY in a spec is just begging for bugs or incompatibility. We'd be better off if those words were banned. Spec writers would be less inclined (hopefully) to come up with all sorts of arbitrary behaviour that might happen and could be maybe handled.
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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by jacquesm on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:31AM (#8519550)
Should and may are spec weasel words, in specs there must (hah!) be 'MUST' and 'MUST NOT'. Otherwise a spec is just a piece of rope with a pre-tied noose.
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