Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/API Future/Why should all modules use "continue"?/reply (2)

I still think it's as easy to just return the remaining usernames rather than a count of how many usernames to skip. Also, don't you keep claiming that we shouldn't restrict the server to one implementation? But here you're restricting the server to process the names in the order the client gave them, instead of processing them in some order more convenient for the server.

As for "original, original+start, original+start+continue, original+start2+continue", do you have an example of a module that actually does this? The closest I can find is prop=imageinfo when used with a generator that returns gxxlimit*X+1 results, where it would use 'start' rather than 'continue' on the last iteration of the generator. But that's still a far cry from the confusion you're claiming.