Magpie::Resource(3pm)

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version 1.163200 · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble

💖 Magpie::Resource 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Magpie::Resource — this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's the abstract base class for all resource types. yes, all of them. she's the blueprint, the template, the main character that every other resource type is lowkey descended from. 👑

✨ VERSION ✨

version 1.163200 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first thing's first, and this is the part that makes people's brains do a little spin: a resource is not the thing that gets transferred across the wire, and it's not the thing you pick up off the disk, and it's not the thing you see from afar while you're out walking your dog. 🐕 every single one of those? just a representation. and the same goes for physical objects you bump into IRL, the ones that never get an identifier and never get made accessible on the net. fr fr.

yes it's a bit of a quandary. but it's a quandary we've all just learned to live with, no cap. our eyes aren't powerful enough to see identity through the representations — but our minds are powerful enough to associate identity to the stuff we see. 👁️✨

and the question is: do I think of a different identifier every time I look at my dog? or do I just think of my dog as one identity, and experience many representations of that identity over time — and on into memory and imagination? 🐶💭

here's the vibe, straight from the source:

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 🌸

like. he ATE with that one. periodt. 💅

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

the icons who made this happen:

  • Kip Hampton <kip.hampton@tamarou.com> 💜
  • Chris Prather <chris.prather@tamarou.com> 💜

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. 🫶 (yes bestie, that means you can absolutely remix it — go off.)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • Magpie ⭐ — the whole rest of the family, go explore

and that's the page!! 💖 this was Magpie::Resource(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, running under perl v5.36.0, last touched 2022-11-19. slay, go build something, mwah 🧚✨

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