Dan Connolly wrote, > Simon St.Laurent wrote, > > URIs are not Platonic Forms, with austere and unchanging > > nature - they're useful tools treated differently in a > > variety of contexts. > > Right. > > Resources on the other hand, _are_ abstract things like > platonic forms... <cough/><splutter/> That just doesn't wash because resources are made of bits, which live in filesystems or memory, or get generated by processes running on distinctly non-abstract boxes full chips and stuff; and they're retrievable because bunches of bits can be transferred over wires. Granted a resource can _represent_ something abstract. But if you can't tell the difference between a representation and the thing it represents then you're in trouble. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)20 8817 4030 London, W6 0LJ, England msabin@cromwellmedia.com http://www.cromwellmedia.com/Received on Tuesday, 23 May 2000 11:24:25 UTC
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