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To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] more politics
From: Berend de Boer <berend@xsol.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 08:28:58 +1200
Cc: "Mike Champion" <mc@xegesis.org>, <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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>>>>> "Dare" == Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com> writes:

    Dare> The whole "GETs must be side effect free" is a spec bug as
    Dare> far as I'm concerned. I can understand saying that they
    Dare> should be idempotent but besides opening the door to a bunch
    Dare> of metaphysical discussions aboutt "what exactly constitutes
    Dare> a side effect" I don't see what purpose that part of the
    Dare> spec serves.

"side effect" has a well defined meaning in computer science. It
refers to the client, not to the server.

-- 
Regards,

Berend. (-:

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