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I did not mention 'formal statement checkable by proof checker' anywhere. Correctness requires some criterion external to the implementation. Write it down and it's a spec. If you do not write it down and the behaviour is not one of the already-standard failure classes like crashing, corrupting data, losing work, then there is no principled way to classify it as a bug rather than an intended feature or tradeoff.


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