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1 point by almkglor 6149 days ago | link | parent

Which exposes the problem of "the code is the spec". If there was a prose spec, pg could have just said that such stuff was undefined and we wouldn't care that such things break.


3 points by akkartik 6149 days ago | link

If stuff doesn't work right, having the spec say it's supposed to not work right doesn't help at all.

Prose specs came into being to help multiple implementations interoperate (somewhat) when implemented in low level languages. I don't see the need when you have just one pretty concise and declarative implementation.

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