From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-08-11T10:04:34+09:00
Subject: Re: extend Html4?

Hi --

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Philip Mak wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 09:16:01AM +0900, dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> > You can include the module, but keep reading below....
> >
> >   require 'cgi'
> >   include CGI::Html3
> >   cgi = CGI.new("html3")
> >   puts html { h1 { "hi" } }
>
> Hmm, it's a little weird that the html, h1, etc. methods won't work
> until CGI.new has been called.

That's because cgi.rb does a bunch of dynamic creation of methods.
(Look at #element_init, of which there's one in each of the Html*
modules.)  So those methods don't actually exist until the CGI object
is created.


David

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