24 Oct
2008
24 Oct
'08
6:43 a.m.
Howard Chu writes:
BTW, possibly "deref(erence)" is a confusing name for the control, since it is apparently not related to aliases.
Oh please. Nor is it related to referrals or search references, and yet these are all references, and "dereference" applies to them equally.
Actually the docs do use different names for that - "follow"/"chase" referrals, or "chain" on the server side, vs. "deref"erence aliases. So if this is a new operation, I figured it wouldn't hurt to look for another word for whatever it is doing. But sure, it's no big thing. And in that regard it can already be a bit confusing that it's aliases and not referrals & search references which are "deref"erenced.
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Hallvard