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/ Berend de Boer <berend@xsol.com> was heard to say:
|>>>>> "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.

/me can't resist the observation that this is a list upon which one is well
advised not to assert that anything has well defined meaning :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM    | A hen is only an egg's way of making another
XML Standards Architect | egg.--Samuel Butler (II)
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