Need help interpreting seemingly ambiguous text in UTS 39

Karl Williamson via Unicode <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:41:51 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.general
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It says

Forbid sequences of the same nonspacing mark.
Forbid sequences of more than 4 nonspacing marks (gc=Mn or gc=Me).

I believe the traditional definition of nonspacing mark is gc=Mn.  The 
second line effectively redefines that definition to include enclosing 
marks.  Does that redefinition apply to the line above, or just to the 
second line?  It seems to me that sequences of the same enclosing mark 
would be suspicious.

Thanks