> From: Len Popp [mailto:len.p...@gmail.com] 
> Subject: Re: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year doesn't 
> work

> > I suppose that there must be some implacable logic in the way it's done now,
> > other than the evil intention to fool the unsuspecting programmer, but I
> > honestly fail to see it.

> There certainly are logical rules behind it. If you want the "why", I
> guess you'd have to ask Jim Gosling.

You'd have to go back much farther than that - those are the rules in pretty 
much every algebraically-oriented language - predating even C, which Java tries 
to be compatible with at the expression level.  (FORTRAN, anyone?)

 - Chuck


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