> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berend de Boer [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:29 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: Mike Champion;
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] more politics
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> "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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