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[Michael Barton <mike-launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Gabriel Hurley
<Gabriel.Hurley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To speak on the specific feature of pagination, the problem of 'corruption' by simultaneous writers is no excuse for not implementing it. You think Google, Facebook, Flickr, etc. etc. etc. don't have this problem? If you consume their feeds you'll notice you can fetch offset-based pagination with ease. You'd never expect to see a navigation element at the bottom of Google search results that said "take me to results starting with the letter m".

Maybe OT, but the reason Swift doesn't support offset-based pagination
is because it doesn't scale well enough.  That probably doesn't apply
to everyone, though.

- Mike