>Yeah, one of those useless paragraphs that intends to communicate
>some important piece of information but doesn't. Maybe the cap can
>discharge into MCLR when Vdd drops and cause some damage?
>Who knows.

Consider what happens when you have a large capacitor (say 10uF for
arguments sake) and you turn off the power to the PIC system. What is the
lowest resistance for the capacitor to discharge through? The ESD protection
diode of course. Now what happens if you happen to have a 5V relay on the
same supply pulled in at power off time. Capacitor on MCLR tries to supply
any number of milliamps to relay coil for unknown number of milliseconds.

In any other scenario name your load, and see if the current out of the
capacitor exceeds the maximum current through the ESD diode :)

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