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Re: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pa ce

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• Subject: Re: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pa ce
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:57:36 +0100
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote,
> I do count it as dereferencing if it attempts to
> find something and comes back with an error message.
> It makes the attempt.

Hmm ... I treat "dereference" as a success verb like find. You can _try_ 
to find something and not find it. But you can't unsuccessfully find 
something, you've just ... not found it. Ditto for dereference.

Cheers,


Miles

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