Re: collection with ordered members

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Larry Masinter wrote:

> If you don't have collections with ordered members, you might
> wonder why you have collections at all. After all, you could just
> build the whole thing out of a 'members' property; if you want
> to add or delete an item from a collection, you'd just modify
> the 'members' property of the resource that you happened to think
> of as a collection.

Trying to be a bit of a contrarian:

If you don't have collections with ordered members, you could
just build them ouf of a 'next-member' property; if you want
to add or delete an item from an ordered collection, you'd just
modify the 'next-member' property of two members of the collection.


Regards,	Martin.