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• Subject: Re: more politics
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 07:57:00 +0100

[Dare Obasanjo]
>The whole "GETs must be side effect free" is a spec bug as far as I'm 
>concerned. I can understand saying that they should be idempotent but 
>besides opening the door to a bunch of metaphysical discussions aboutt 
>"what exactly constitutes a side effect" I don't see what purpose that 
>part of the spec serves.

[Tim Bray]
 >Right.  Basically every GET writes a logfile record as a minimum.  I'm 
more comfy with
 >language along the lines of "GET does not incur new obligations."  Which is
 >actually functionally necessary for caches and proxies to work. -Tim

Plus, that interpretation has the useful side-effect (sorry) of making the 
interpretation
of GET compatible with the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics :-)

Sean

http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com

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