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Yes, I have had the same experience with the specification. It really is quite difficult to follow :c

Their SpecTec system is fancy and neat but I don't think that auto-generated specifications produce something worth reading. Perhaps in the future when there's less churn, there might be a hand-written specification? In the mean time I've needed to jump into their Discord to ask clarification questions about the high-level stuff. Once understanding that and the grammar conventions and the like, the specification becomes much more readable, though still not great.

Certainly nothing like an RFC. But maybe I have too high standards...



(It doesn't help that the syntax is *weird*. You've got your choice of an S-expression Scheme syntax or a stack-oriented ML syntax, *and* you can use both together. And there's at least one undocumented de facto syntax floating around AFAIK, though I believe the standard merged support for the main features it was used for, so hopefully test suites and the like will switch away from it at some point.)




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