[mattmanser]

This is going to come across as incredibly condescending but I honestly don't mean it as such.

When you have some more experience and a greater breath of knowledge programming you will see this kind of thing happens all the time. Whether by design, by accident, by omission, by not quite being explicit, by implicitness, it happens in every spec, in every language and in every protocol.

You can find something like this in them all.