On 12/15/06, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've always interpreted a kind of inheritance relationship between MIME types.
It's telling that James felt it natural to choose the name "type" for the parameter. Because it really is naming a new type of document. In programming, whenever I find myself sticking a member named "type" into some class definition, I usually have to admit that I'm hacking in a new subclass definition and subverting the type system. That's what defining the "type" parameter is doing. Hugh
