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Re: REST has too many verbs

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• Subject: Re: REST has too many verbs
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 11 Feb 2002 17:59:06 -0500
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On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:51, Mark Baker wrote:
> getFile(), getName(), getArticle(), getStockQuote() were what we had
> *before* the Web.  I can't see any reason to go back after seeing
> what can be achieved with GET.

If reducing the number of function names in favor of fewer function
names with more flexible arguments seems like progress to you, I suppose
that's an improvement.

Exchanging information outside of a function framework seems to me like
a more likely field for continuing improvement.
 
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Simon St.Laurent
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