Portable document issues

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

After going over all the "portable" document comments, the most common 
remark was that implementation-dependent or implementation-defined 
features aren't very portable.

OK, but we can say that one time, hopefully when we define 
implementation-dependent versus implementation defined and simply drop 
most of the "portable" remarks elsewhere.

That is once we have said something in the text is 
implementation-dependent or implementation-defined, it is by definition 
not very portable.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Patrick

PS: The notion of simply saying implementation-dependent/defined as a 
sign of non-portability was actually suggested by Rob Weir in an earlier 
discussion. Looking at all of the cases left very few paragraphs where 
that wasn't the concern for portability.

-- 
Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)