if <assignment>:
Donn Cave
donn at u.washington.edu
Mon Nov 25 19:20:11 EST 2002
Quoth "Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com>:
| ObRant: What the hell is the difference between an "implementation defined"
| feature, and an "undefined" feature? In both cases, a particular
| implementation is free to do whatever it wants. The only possible difference
| I can think of is that "implementation defined" implies that the
| implementation should at least try to do something useful ... and actually
| document what it does.
I think that in the former case, a particular implementation is only
free to do what it wants the first time. The second time, it should
do what it did the first time.
Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu
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