- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 13:30:11 -0700
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Geoff writes: > The "principle of regularity" states that if a moved resource is moved to > the end of the ordering in some cases, it is more regular for it > to be moved to the end of the ordering in all cases, and not make the > behavior dependent on whether the destination collection is the same as > the source collection. > For folks that expect regularity, it will be "less astonishing" for the > behavior to be regular, and not special-cased in the way you suggest. We actually have two logical operations hiding under the name "MOVE". (a) One is a rename within a collection. (b) The other is a move (possibly also with a rename at the same time) to another collection. I don't think people would expect the same ordering behavior for (a) and (b), since they view them as different logical operations. - Jim
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