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From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
>More to the point, doing two GETs on such an URL delivers two distinct
Cokes,
>not merely two copies of the same pile of bits. As others have pointed
>out, this use of GET is unsafe.
It returns two instances of the process of using
the same recipe if you ask correctly.
Works for me except I need the Diet Coke and not the
Coca-Cola. Woe be unto it for sending me a 'pop'.
<details>In the American South, all soda drinks are
'Cokes' including Pepsi-Cola, RCColas, and so on.
To get a Coca Cola, you have to ask for it or check
behind the counter first.
In the North, these are 'pops'. If you ask for a
'pop' in the South, they look at you strangely but
if you keep insisting, they will pop you. This usually
just results in a sore arm or nose. In the North,
if they pop you, it results in a trip to the mortuary.
The case for tea is worse; Southerners
habitually sweeten tea. To get it without sugar,
you have to ask for unsweetened tea. In the North,
typically, the case is the reverse. Because of
problems of reference such as these, we fought
and have never forgotten, our Civil War, and
may do it again in the near future.</details>
No system of reference that cannot account for
context scales without creating ambiguity.
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