Re: should guidelines say something about NOT using IMPLIED?

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> IMPLIED does *NOT* put strings in alphabetical order, at
> least not for any language I can think of.  For example, IMPLIED
> produces this ordering:
> 
>    Apple
>    Zebra
>    aardvark
> 
> In other languages the results are even more contrary to
> human expectations, so "alphabetical order" is *not*
> one of the benefits of using IMPLIED.

Fair enough.  The question, however, is really this:  is
IMPLIED evil enough to be NOT RECOMMENDED?  Or at least
clearly not useful?  If that's true, it's not obvious to me,
and I would like to be educated before I write down a rule
against using it.  (A pointer to the appropriate mailing
list where the issue has been discussed would be OK.)

Mike