The way I (and I think the majority) interpreted it, was: "What did the person who wrote this rule intend?" i.e. The spirit of the rule, not the letter. Obviou

The way I (and I think the majority) interpreted it, was: "What did the person who wrote this rule intend?" i.e. The spirit of the rule, not the letter. Obviously, no one expects the rule to cover all edge cases, so we have to extrapolate what the rule writer meant to say.