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On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay at racket-lang.org> wrote:
> I like the idea of the match patterns... but I'm worried about the details.
>
> The names are very common: get, post, head, etc. And I think exporting
> them as http-method-get or GET, etc would be hideous.
>
> Also, there is no exhaustive list of valid HTTP methods... anything
> can be used. And even the lisf of commonly used ones is long:
>
> http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/10/http-methods  (as of 2007)
>
> Do you have any ideas for a solution to this?

I like `GET`, `POST`, etc -- they're often spelled all-uppercase in
documentation etc (as in Anne's list).

Sam