[Chicago] meeting app list

Martin Maney maney at two14.net
Sat Apr 1 03:53:38 CEST 2006


On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 06:21:13PM -0600, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> Martin Maney wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:54:07PM -0600, Fawad Halim wrote:
> >> http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12346&topic=251
> >>
> >> P.S. Is the .py in the URL phat or what?
> >
> > Ugly, actually, as are all unnecessary internals that leak into URLs.
> >
> 
> you think so?  I think bits like that should be encouraged since it
> provides an API into the underlying "database".  More URLs like this would
> be better.

Huh?  We were talking about the .py part, which is nothing but an
unnecessary leakage of implementation detail into the external API.  As
much as I, too, enjoy seeing Python spoor, it's not a good design to
expose that.

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