in reply to The behavior is [sic] undefined

"And, if I do X, what is the resulting behavior?"

"We haven't defined that."

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Re^2: The behavior is [sic] undefined
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 18, 2009 at 23:59 UTC

    "And, if I do X, what is the resulting behavior?"

    • Either: "We've specified that it will do Y, so conforming implementations will do that."
    • Or "We haven't specified that, so the behavour will be defined by the implementations."
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      We haven't specified that, so the behavour will be defined by the implementations.
      That's typically labelled as implementation defined. Which is not the same as undefined behaviour.
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