Re: httpRange-14 , what's the problem

Roy T. Fielding wrote,
> Those are all examples of referencing.

As I tried to explain a little later in my post, they're all examples of 
_use_ with respect to a specified practice/mechanism.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're trying to make by 
contrasting referencing with dereferencing. There's a well established 
distinction between use vs. mention of an identifier (eg. Miles Sabin 
is the author of this mail vs. "Miles Sabin" consists of eleven 
characters), but that doesn't apply to those examples. They might not 
all correspond particularly closely to the kind of pointer dereference 
found in C-like programming languages, but they all pretty clearly 
involve the/a referent not just the identifier, so they're examples of 
use rather than mention.

Cheers,


Miles