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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
I don't think so, because the rules committees borrow heavily from each other -- and all the major codes started from a single one. Not only do they tend to lift language from each other, but also concerns, so that even when they aren't copying each other's wording, the trends propagate. See for instance the recent actions re horse collar tackling.
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Robert, there's no question rules committees "borrow from each other" and adopt ideas and directions from one code to another, but when they do they specify how that idea, or direction, should be addressed within their particular code. You can't just always apply an explanation, or clarification from one code to another or always make the broad assumptions that these codes always "mean" the same thing, regardless of what they actually say.