On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM, omd <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Can someone please give me a counterargument to "When created,
>> switches have their default values" == "new switches have their
>> default values"?
>
> Rule 1586.
By the way, the rules didn't actually say "when created, switches have
their default values". The original version was explicit:
Whenever a switch is created, or becomes associated with a class
of entities, then each entity in the class that had previously
been in a state that is now a state of the switch shall continue
to be in that state; all other entities in the class shall be in
the default state of the switch.
and the modern version, though more vague, has always read:
If an instance of a switch would otherwise fail to
have a possible value, it comes to have its default value.
which does not explicitly limit how the possible value might be obtained.
