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[Dare Obasanjo]
>The whole "GETs must be side effect free" is a spec bug as far as I'm
>concerned. I can understand saying that they should be idempotent but
>besides opening the door to a bunch of metaphysical discussions aboutt
>"what exactly constitutes a side effect" I don't see what purpose that
>part of the spec serves.
[Tim Bray]
>Right. Basically every GET writes a logfile record as a minimum. I'm
more comfy with
>language along the lines of "GET does not incur new obligations." Which is
>actually functionally necessary for caches and proxies to work. -Tim
Plus, that interpretation has the useful side-effect (sorry) of making the
interpretation
of GET compatible with the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics :-)
Sean
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
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