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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 08:35:44PM -0700, Dave Curtis wrote:
> On 08/12/2014 04:19 PM, John Doty wrote:
> >
> >On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Dave Curtis <davecurtis AT sonic DOT net> wrote:
> >
> >>Because if "CR and LF have no effect", then why the admonition against CR/LF against places after a comma?
> >
> >Often, specs for readers say “be liberal in what you accept” while specs for writers say “be conservative in what you emit”. That seems to be the case here. Don’t make a big deal of it.
> >
> 
> Yes, I totally understand that philosophy.  If I was writing a
> reader, I would have no problem being liberal.  If I was writing a
> writer, I would have no problem being conservative.  But... I am
> writing a validation tool, which leaves zero margin for lack of
> precision.
> 
> I first did logic design on mainframe CPU's in 1981. I spent a large
> part of my life combing architecture documents for nits, making the
> lives of the spec authors quite miserable until they told me
> precisely what they meant.  Logic design mistakes in CPUs can be
> expensive.  At one point in my life I signed off on the Pentium
> processor errata sheet every month before it went out.....

And it still was mass-produced with some "floating point division issues" ;-)

	Gabriel