- From: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:11:23 -0400
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, public-html@w3.org
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
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