From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-05-15T00:30:40+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi params api

Hi --

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Wakou Aoyama wrote:

> test_arg = {"key1" => ["val1", "val2"], "key2"=>["val1", "val2"]}
> cgi = CGI.new(test_arg)
> p cgi["key1"]            # "val1"
> p cgi["key1"] == "val1"  # true
> p cgi["key1"].to_s       # "val1"
> p cgi["key1"].to_a       # ["val1", "val2"]
> p cgi["key1"].type       # CGI::Param
> p cgi["key1"][0]         # "val1"    backward compatibility ;->
> p cgi["key1"][1]         # "val2"
>
> How about this?

Personally I don't like it: it still feels to me like #to_a (on what
at least "feels" like a string) is magically interpolating values that
weren't there.  This makes me question in what sense it is going "to"
an array -- or, to put it another way, "to_a" seems like the wrong
name for what is happening here.

Oh well, even our circles are going in circles :-)  I'll shut up
unless and until I come up with something tangible.


David

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