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Magpie-1.131250
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NAME

Magpie::Resource - Abstract base class for all resource types;

VERSION

version 1.131250

DESCRIPTION

A resource is not the thing that is transferred across the wire or picked
up off the disk or seen from afar while walking your dog. Each of those is
only a representation. The same is true of physical objects encountered in
life and never identified with URI and never made accessible on the net.
Yes, it does present a bit of a quandary, but it is one that we have all
learned to live with. Our eyes are not powerful enough to see identity
through the representations, but our minds are powerful enough to associate
identity to that which we see. Do I think of a different identifier every
time I see my dog, or do I simply think of my dog as one identity and
experience many representations of that identity over time (and on into
memory and imagination)?

Roy Fielding - July 2002

AUTHORS

  • Kip Hampton <kip.hampton@tamarou.com>

  • Chris Prather <chris.prather@tamarou.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Tamarou, LLC.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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