Does the spec take priority over the compiler?

[Stanislav Blinov]

On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 18:16:58 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
> When the spec says that one thing should happen and the 
> compiler does something different, should we generally take the 
> spec to be correct, or should we take the compiler to be 
> correct? Do we need to ask Walter every time, or go spelunking 
> through github comments and the newsgroup to figure it out?

All of the above in unspecified order, sometimes fruitlessly, 
unfortunately.