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philosophical problem ;)

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From: Deepayan Chakrabarti <deepay@cs.cmu.edu>
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Subject: philosophical problem ;)
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why should a nextRecord on an empty page return DONE and not some error? 
firstRecord(rid) on an empty page should return DONE, but what will be the
value of "rid" after this call?

if someone calls nextRecord w/o a previous call to firstRecord, what
should we return then??

not that all this really matters... 

 -deepay