> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:40:37 -0400
> From: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <[log in to unmask]>
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> From: "Robert Sanderson" <[log in to unmask]>
> > We could change the semantics to:
> > [...]
>
> I still feel strongly about overloading a parameter, which is why I
> suggested a new parameter altogether. The problem with that is we
> would have to wait until the next version.
I agree that overloading parameters is bad.
However --
(A) there is no parameter-overloading in my suggestion of using URIs
constructed according to some documented scheme;
(B) we have a well-defined extension mechanism so there would in any
case be no reason to wait until v2.
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