I generally agree. But sometimes it's very hard to navigate the standard. Sometimes I look things up in cppreference, and then find corresponding wording in the

I generally agree. But sometimes it's very hard to navigate the standard. Sometimes I look things up in cppreference, and then find corresponding wording in the standard itself. And surely the stakes are different when you are writing a compiler compared to just using the language. As a user if you are not sure about certain parts of the language then you are free to steer away from those parts. As an implementer, you are not free to not implement parts of the standard.