Re: What is the value of conformance? (was RE: <font color="blue"> (was ISSUE-32))

On 6/12/09 6:52 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> John Foliot wrote:
>> In a perfect world, critical fail is that - critical (if your C+ code is
>> not conformant, when you go to compile, what happens?) 
>
> About half the time, your compiler gives you a warning and compiles it 
> anyway.  And then either it misbehaves or doesn't compile on a 
> different compiler...

That's not a good comparison. In this case, the behavior required for 
conformant handling of "non-conformant" input is precisely specified. So 
misbehaving consumers or full-stop errors from different consumers don't 
really apply, unless you take some MUSTs more seriously than others.

- Rob