From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2002-11-10T22:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Random idea: Procedural CGI??

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:56:36AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> I've been musing about something today,
> and I've decided that one thing making
> CGI tedious is the fact that it's rather
> non-procedural (and not in an OO way).
...
> That is, I'd like it if I could write
> something like:
> 
>   # Display a form and get the data back
>   results = myform.display()
>   if results.name == ""
>     results = myform.display("Name required")
>   else
>     # Process...
>   end

See discussion "CGI sessions as threads?" from 6th October, in particular
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/52624

I am looking forward to seeing Avi's code :-)

Regards,

Brian.