Re: Detecting errors

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Norman Walsh writes:

> (a) Does this pipeline contain an error?
> (b) Are implementations allowed to report it?
> (c) Are implementations required to report it?

No, no and no.  I agree with the other arguments advanced so far, and
would add a further one: If I find a large library with a step in it I
want, and I import it and use only that step, I shouldn't have to bind
all the dangling external references that the other steps in the
library may have.

ht
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