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Re: Code generation or forms?

From: Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:26:47 +0100
Message-ID: <42AF2167.7090509@ldodds.com>
To: hughw@wellstorm.com
Cc: public-web-http-desc@w3.org

Hugh Winkler wrote:
>>>Why is it optional for code generation? Knowledge of type and
>>>optionality of arguments are precisely the kind of data that I'd expect
>>>to have to generate useful code. E.g. so I could throw an exception if a
>>>request is sent without required parameters, or to generate type-safe
>>>methods.
>>>
>>
> I was only talking about the natural language "description" attribute -- the
> other bits, like "required", etc, are necessary for code generation.

Yes, sorry I misunderstood you -- I thought you were talking about all
of the descriptive metadata.

Not that I'm particularly interested in code generation, I'm still not
seeing the arguments against it. Sorry to be slow!

Cheers,

L.
Received on Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:26:53 GMT

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