[Email-SIG] invertability and idempotence
Andrew McNamara
andrewm at object-craft.com.au
Thu Oct 22 06:58:24 CEST 2009
>You are referring here to invertability, rather than idempotence.
The discussion had referred to idempotency up until that point, and I
didn't want to introduce new terminology. But referring to this:
> generate(parse(msg)) == msg
as "idempotency" is perfectly valid in my opinion (as in, applying an
operation multiple times produces the same result).
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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
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