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Re: more politics

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: more politics
• From: Berend de Boer <berend@x...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 08:28:58 +1200
• Cc: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <830178CE7378FC40BC6F1DDADCFDD1D1173B30@R...> ("DareObasanjo"'s message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:07:25 -0700")
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>>>>> "Dare" == Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...> 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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