Zefram wrote:
Levi Stephen wrote:
4. MAY, CAN: The described action is permitted but a failure to
perform
the described action does not violate the rule in question.
These should not be synonymous. "CAN" should be concerned with
possibility, and "MAY" with permission.
Yes, that is consistent with CANNOT and MAY NOT, so if it was just the negatives
of those it becomes
CAN: Attempts to perform the described action are successful
MAY: Performing the described action does not violate the rule in question
But, MAY is probably better defined along the lines of
MAY: Performing the described action is permitted
Re failure to perform, what if
another provision makes the same action mandatory in some circumstances?
Leaving it out of the part about not violating the rule in question might be
best here?
Levi
