From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-05-15T10:50:41+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi params api

Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote in message news:<20020514131656.GA14145@panoptic.com>...
> > I have to admit I think somehow most of what's come up in this thread
> > seems awfully complicated.  Also, we're pretty much going in circles
> > at this point.  It might be interesting to write a CGI script (in
> > current cgi.rb style) that does various things with various input,
> > handles unexpected cases, etc., and then "translate" it into some of
> > the proposed styles and see how much clarity is gained, how much
> > typing is saved, etc.
> 
> Someone write a CGI using cgi.rb, and I'll write it using my newly
> writen Panoptic::CGI ...

I agree that multiple forks would give us a chance to sort the more
complicated design issues.  Then we could compare how one would use
each of these, and the official ruby decision might be easier to make.

I think there will be convergence in the forks.  Those areas would be
our points of design perfection :-)

~ Patrick