From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-05-13T20:46:42+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi params api

Hello --

On Mon, 13 May 2002, David Alan Black wrote:

> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Dossy wrote:
> >
> > True, but in the Ruby idiom, cgi["name"] ought to return a
> > single value.  If you want to iterate over all the values,
> > you ought to do a cgi["name"].to_a.each to coerce the values
> > into an array to iterate over.
>
> Do you mean the CGI idiom?  In Ruby, a hash value can be (and often
> is) anything, including an array (which really is a single value, or
> rather a single object).

Well, that was stated very narrowly, since it really isn't a Hash
issue :-)  But anyway, I'm still not sure why a single-value idiom
would apply here.


David

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