From: Wakou Aoyama <wakou@...>
Date: 2002-05-11T05:56:40+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi params api

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:27:13AM +0900,
 Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:

> >> > cgi["name"].to_a    # ["value1", "value2", "value3",...]
> >
> >I just noticed that :to_a conflicts with Enumerable.to_a, which String
> >mixes in.  Perhaps the original name :multiple is better?
> >
> >~ Patrick
> 
> cgi["name"].values ?

cgi["name"]         # ==> "value"
cgi["name"].values  # ==> "value".values ???


Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>:
cgi["name"]         # ==> ["value1", "value2", "value3"]
cgi["name"].to_s    # ==> "value1value2value3"

This may be good.


> BTW: cgi[:name] would be faster, wouldn't it ? I still wonder why
> Symbols are under utilized... in Ruby... Perhaps cgi.name would please
> everybody ? That leads us to cgi.name.values...

Symbols may be adopted with Ruby2.0.


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Wakou Aoyama  <wakou@fsinet.or.jp>