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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:24:27 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] troff and 4.4BSD man pages
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rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
>>I have even had groff diagnose mistakes in my input files that
>>Unix troff just silently accepted!
> unix/plan9 troff silently accepts most mistakes, in my experience...

In fact the troff input language definition requires
that such things as uninitialized variables not be
diagnosed.  It's a feature, not a bug.