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To me, that reads as 'X is not allowed to do Y' without any ambiguity until you pointed it out and I thought hard about it. Wondering whether that is common re
by rocqua 7y ago
To me, that reads as 'X is not allowed to do Y' without any ambiguity until you pointed it out and I thought hard about it.
Wondering whether that is common response or not.
- leetcrew 7y agoit's an ambiguous parse for sure, but the meaning is usually clear in context. it's possible to create a really ambiguous example though, e.g. "when pinged, the server may not respond". is this stating a requirement that the server never responds to pings, or is it a warning that the server doesn't always respond?
- bsder 7y agoThe problem is statement vs command. "X may not do Y." as a statement implies that X doing Y is unusual, but possible. "X may not do Y." as a command implies that X doing Y is a mistake.