That's certainly a good way to describe it! Although this particular behavior is laid out in ANSI's definition, it's certainly not incredibly well documented elsewhere (and not mentioned per se on Ms' side), so I've actually seen it being disclaimed as "a bug".
Now this has me wondering how many other items MS tech writers of BOL have missed or failed to properly communicate with MS development teams about.
Thanks, now I have to determine where to keep that link you provided for my own future reference