6 Apr
2021
6 Apr
'21
11:28 p.m.
On 4/4/21 2:15 AM, Mark Shannon wrote:
Calling something a "reference" implementation suggests that it is something that people can refer to, that is near perfectly correct and fills in the gaps in the specification.
That is a high standard, and one that is very difficult to attain.
Indeed. I don't think even the CPython reference implementation achieves that standard -- unless we have vastly different ideas on what "near perfectly correct" means. -- ~Ethan~