- From: Jacek Kopecky <jacek@systinet.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:04:35 +0100 (CET)
- To: Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>
- cc: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Rich,
what I mean by "default value" is, of course, an
"application-specified default value". Would this clarification
satisfy your concerns, or is it something else?
I don't like the words "unspecified value" because IMHO that is
just a special case of the above. But I can imagine the situation
can be viewed the opposite - the former being a special case of
the latter, is that right? 8-)
I'm really concerned about potentially misleading formulations
so thanks for your comments.
Jacek Kopecky
Senior Architect, Systinet (formerly Idoox)
http://www.systinet.com/
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Rich Salz wrote:
> I don't think I wrote clearly enough.
>
> I am concerned that by saying "default value" rather than "unspecified
> values", that careless programmers will assume an "obvious" default,
> such as zero for all numbers, etc., and that SOAP implementors will be
> forced to implement this because careless programmers on popular
> platforms end up "forcing" everyone else to play along.
>
> I have been doing distributed systems for awhile -- I maintained an idl
> compiler at BBN over a decade ago -- and I was still mislead by your text.
> /r$
>
>
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