- From: Walden Mathews <waldenm@optonline.net>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 23:36:32 -0500
- To: Assaf Arkin <arkin@intalio.com>, "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
> You mean the distinction between getLastShardPriceOfIBM and > http://www.stockquotes.com/ibm/lastsharedprice (typo repeated)? > > In the first case the service can report that the operation is unknown and > list all (say 10?) operations it supports. > > In the second case the service can report that the URI is unknown and list > all (10,000?) URIs it knows of. Any reason for choosing those particular numbers? > > Not that it makes one typo superior to the other, but perhaps there's some > hidden distinction here that could actually represent a compelling argument > to favor one approach over the other in a different, less marginal, use > case. Well, if I (as client) lifted that string out of a response I just received a few milliseconds ago, it would seem to stand a high chance of being the correct string. But there are other ways of getting it correct also. That's the distinction that I value. Walden
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