> I think that to some extent those things are implied by "reading", just as some level of comprehension is assumed when talking about reading a book. Even bet

> I think that to some extent those things are implied by "reading", just as some level of comprehension is assumed when talking about reading a book. Even better, in fact: one can misread a book with, usually, no reasonable way of determining the extent of one's misreading (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18380366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18380366 for a current front-page example); whereas, when one (mis)reads code, there is always at hand a way to test the accuracy of one's reading (and perhaps find out thereby, in the presence of a sufficiently detailed specification, that the programmer also 'misread' it!).