# HG changeset patch
# User Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
# Date 1268180590 0
#      Wed Mar 10 00:23:10 2010 +0000
# Branch extradoc
# Node ID 6d6053b3ef8878a78937451973df8e9cb61d5a81
# Parent  c9a9a7cedc59ec7b8acc48f7ee936988bd0ad3e0
clarify

diff --git a/compat.html b/compat.html
--- a/compat.html
+++ b/compat.html
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@
 </pre>
 </li>
 <li><p class="first">We don't support certain attributes that were decided to be
-implementation-dependent. For example <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gc.get_referrers</span></tt>. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gc.enable</span></tt>
-and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gc.disable</span></tt> are supported, but they don't enable and disable GC,
-but instead enable and disable running of finalizers.</p>
+implementation-dependent. For example, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gc.get_referrers</span></tt> does not exist.
+Others may have different behavior; for example, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gc.enable</span></tt> and
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gc.disable</span></tt> are supported, but they don't enable and disable GC, but
+instead enable and disable running of finalizers.</p>
 </li>
 <li><p class="first">You can't attach a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">__del__</span></tt> method to a class after its creation.</p>
 </li>
diff --git a/source/compat.txt b/source/compat.txt
--- a/source/compat.txt
+++ b/source/compat.txt
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@
         f.write("stuff")
 
 * We don't support certain attributes that were decided to be
-  implementation-dependent. For example ``gc.get_referrers``. ``gc.enable``
-  and ``gc.disable`` are supported, but they don't enable and disable GC,
-  but instead enable and disable running of finalizers.
+  implementation-dependent. For example, ``gc.get_referrers`` does not exist.
+  Others may have different behavior; for example, ``gc.enable`` and
+  ``gc.disable`` are supported, but they don't enable and disable GC, but
+  instead enable and disable running of finalizers.
 
 * You can't attach a ``__del__`` method to a class after its creation.