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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>
>> Are Notes normative?
>
> No, but they are true.  That is, they follow from the normative rules.

Ah, I'd forgotten how to speak Requirements. So when Note 1 says "The
partitions comprising a program *may* be executed on differently
configured distributed systems or on a non-distributed system without
requiring recompilation." [my emphasis] there's no requirement on an
implementation to actually do this.