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On Wednesday, in article
     <Snews.960821.092904.chris.1647@keris.demon.co.uk>
     chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:

CC> In article <26512@wash.demon.co.uk>
CC>            john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" wrote:
CC> 
CC> >Strictly, I suppose one should also consider off site
CC> >links in this definition.  If //wash/A links to //keris/B,
CC> >which in turn links to //wash/C, even though there are
CC> >no links (direct or indirect) from A to C within //wash,
CC> >are A and C part of the same site, as far as depth of
CC> >search?
CC> 
CC> And is //keris/B part of that 'site'?

?  Not in my definition of 'site', but I'm only inventing
the nomenclature as I go along, so pinch of salt advised.

CC> 
CC> Note that you have to catch recursion as well - it's not at all uncommon
CC> for Web pages to have circular references (in fact some pride themselves
CC> on it)...

Yes, I envisage having a list of items already fetched.

CC> 
CC> >Frankly I don't really care, I think whatever way the code
CC> >happens to fall out, that's the way it's supposed to
CC> >work!
CC> 
CC> I like that!  It's the way I think as well <g>...

We'd better go seal our letterboxes, or there'll be hate mail
from the Mktg Dept asserting their right to choose the colour
of our code.

--
John Washington
     IT dictionary:
        Recursion [noun], see iteration.
        Iteration [noun], see well-known chestnut, etc..