I would too, but getting to "the basic function is the same" requires a lot of foresight, if not luck.
This isn't directed at anyone in particular, but this discussion has taken shades of the absurd for a while now -- it seems like people are solving theoretical, not actual, problems. I have a concrete use case that I want to solve, and real users and implementers who want it solved. I get nervous when people try to fit it into some grand architectural sketch of how things *should* work that they have in mind; in my experience, such efforts rarely pay off, and often fail.
On 17/10/2005, at 2:58 PM, James M Snell wrote:
Generally speaking, if the semantic difference between the use of next/prev in one feed relative to another can be expressed using a separate extension (e.g. the presence of an incremental=true or a profile attribute or whatever else may come up, then I would favor the use of the generic mechanism assuming that the basic function is the same.
-- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
