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Alaric Snell wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 21:32, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > > > A URI is a name and a locator. A URI can have arguments > > appended to the end of it, so it is a hyperlink and a function call > > (which after a lot of years I've come to believe are the same thing > > but we can argue about that). > > I agree with Len - argue with him and you argue with me too! As I've mentioned a couple of times, in the general case a function call can have dangerous side effects. Therefore one does not (in general): * bookmark them * email them to one's mother * crawl them with a robot * execute them whenever one is curious about what they do This means that you cannot safely combine generic function calls into a web of information that you traverse whenever you feel like it, however you feel like it. On the Web, a hyperlink is like a function call wherein the provider of the function promises not to do anything potentially destructive. Therein lies a huge, er, functional difference. Paul Prescod
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