# Letting the write path share the read path's leniency

_2026-09-21 · booth_

**Letting the write path share the read path's leniency.** See the
`MarksCorrupt` decision above. The general shape, worth carrying beyond marks:
a tolerant reader and a tolerant writer over the same state are not the same
decision, and pointing both at one function silently makes them one. Tolerate on
read so the surface still renders; refuse on write so nothing is destroyed.