From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-02-08T06:52:40+09:00
Subject: Re: easy access for CGI query


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Wakou Aoyama (wakou@ruby-lang.org) wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 06:08:48AM +0900,
>  Eric Hodel wrote:
>=20
> > But still magic and can be confusing, it smells of PHP's register_globa=
ls
> > evilness.
>=20
> Yes, therefore This plan is not use globals and not pollute other
> scopes.
>=20
> How about this as additional way?

in PHP, it polutues the global namespace, here it polutes the CGI
namespace, I don't think that's much of a tradeoff, especially when
cgi.params['foo'] works just as well.  I just don't like it in the
standard library, as it can cause too many surprises, and doesn't feel
right.

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