Re: Summing up on visibility(?)

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From: "Assaf Arkin" <[email protected]>

> From what I know if an operation is not idempotent than nothing can make
it
> idempotent.
Perhaps a new idempotent operation can be constructed that uses the
non-idempotent operation.

> However, you can allow an invocation to be idempotent by
> allowing multiple instances of the same invocation and detecting and
> eliminating duplicates. The operation is still not idempotent (it has not
> changed) but the interface allows idempotent invocation.
This is true. It also has the characteristic of reflecting the original
operation's non-idempotency - no new semantics.