On 5 August 2013 21:35, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Can someone please give me a counterargument to "When created, >>> switches have their default values" == "new switches have their >>> default values"? >> >> Rule 1586. > > By the way, the rules didn't actually say "when created, switches have > their default values". The original version was explicit: > > Whenever a switch is created, or becomes associated with a class > of entities, then each entity in the class that had previously > been in a state that is now a state of the switch shall continue > to be in that state; all other entities in the class shall be in > the default state of the switch. > > and the modern version, though more vague, has always read: > > If an instance of a switch would otherwise fail to > have a possible value, it comes to have its default value. > > which does not explicitly limit how the possible value might be obtained.
Ah, okay. I can rest easy now.
