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by strken 126 days ago
Pulling exact quotes out, SHOULD means "there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item" while MAY means "an item is truly optional."

I don't think this can be interpreted as simply "should is optional".
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Dylan16807 126 days ago
They're both optional, but one comes attached to a big warning message.
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Arnt 126 days ago
Well… yes… no… SHOULD means that you must either do the thing or understand the consequences of not doing it. That's not simply optional, the two options are to ① spend time on writing code and ② spend time on learning the consequences. Either way you need to think hard and spend time. And that's why the definition of SHOULD includes the word "must".
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