- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:24:18 +0100
- To: "www-tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
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
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