On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Kenneth Tilton <k...@tiltontec.com> wrote:
> You are puzzliing over undefined behavior, meaning what you have > discovered:is that implementations are free to go as crazy as, well, > canines in a dog park. > As usual Kenneth you are entertainingly sarcastic almost to a fault. > This can be excitingly crazy, because the CL standardizers were too > exhausted to include the MOP in the standard. (They made nice excuses about > not wanting to inhibit implementers, but dollars to donuts they just ran up > the white flag in the face of the idea of standardizing something as vast > in itself as a complete HLL). > Musing over this ever since the official publication the CL standard, I am still not convinced it was a bad and unwise decision. > > What were actually trying to build? > Just pushing my Sisyphus' rock (aka. MKCL) in a somewhat better direction.
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