That's what BrowserUK was originally saying.

You find their meaning to be the same because you automatically assume "behavior is undefined" to "the documentation for this behavior is undefined". Some would say that this is indeed implied by context, since the entire document is referring to "the behavior" in some kind of weird literary timeless tense or imperfect tense.

But, I'm against evolving language out of stupidity or laziness. That is, don't misuse words if there is already a good and proper way to say it. If there isn't, then I'll consider it.

FWIW, doing bad things in Perl shouldn't be undefined to the same extent as C. The ill-effects should be bounded and the larger context fault tolerant. But specifying that in detail makes it legal and well-defined!

—John

In reply to Re^3: The behavior is [sic] undefined by John M. Dlugosz
in thread The behavior is [sic] undefined by John M. Dlugosz

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