I don't like "Because the spec says so."
comments to the why
questions.
I think a why
question generally asks the reason behind the design. Why did the language designers choose(or did not choose) this design? Answers like,
Eric Lippert
answer: Because they did not think about this, so it is not implemented.etc answers are much more contributing than "Because the spec says so."
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If you don't have any idea, please don't bother to answer.