Hi Graham,

Graham Chiu wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:43:20 +0200
>  Nenad Rakocevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > google: read soap://api.google.com/GoogleSeach
> >
[...]
>
> This could assume that http is the default transport
> mechanism, and we could supply a refinement for alternatives
> 
> eg google/goGetCachedPage/smtp [ .. ]

I would rather make it that way :

service: open soap://api.google.com/GoogleSeach
insert service [use SMTP]

then :

service/locals/goGetCachedPage [...]
..

or maybe :

insert service [get all]
google: copy service
google/goGetCachedPage [...]
..

> and one of the reasons I prefer 'to-soap is that 'read is a
> native, and already overloaded.  And if we use a mezzanine
> function, we can proceed regardless of what RT do, whereas
> 'read requires assistance from RT.

Not totally true. 'Read is just a shortcut for open/insert/close.
So, it can be supported when writing a scheme handler (see my work
on MySQL). 'Read is fully polymorphic by definition.

> But, if you really want to use 'read
> 
> google: to-soap read soap://api.google.com/GoogleSeach.wsdl
          ^^^^^^^                                       ^^^^^^
IMHO, this two additions shoud be useless.

Regards,
-DocKimbel.
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