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[Nathan Myers]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:51:32PM -0700, Martin Sebor wrote:
> 1.5, p6 just says how examples and notes are denoted, not how
> they should be interpreted. I believe 17.3.1.1, p2 is the
> relevant text:
> 
>     Paragraphs labelled ??Note(s):?? or ??Example(s):?? are
>     informative, other paragraphs are normative.

Wow, is that ever a Defect!  Amazing nobody caught it before.

That's left over from before we had any Notes: sections in 
function descriptions.  This deserves immediate attention.  
Half of the standard library is unspecified, by that criterion.
The distinction with "[Note: --end note]" was added for a reason.

Nathan Myers
ncm-nospam@cantrip.org