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  • To: "Berend de Boer" <berend@x...>
  • Subject: RE: more politics
  • From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:41:43 -0700
  • Cc: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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  • Thread-topic: more politics

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berend de Boer [mailto:berend@x...] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:29 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: Mike Champion; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  more politics
> 
> 
> "side effect" has a well defined meaning in computer science. 
> It refers to the client, not to the server.

I haven't really come across the term "side effect" in the realm of
distributed computing so I'd be curious as to a pointer to where this is
well defined. However I do know that idempotent operations are well
defined. 


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