From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T06:17:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing POST and GET variables simultaneously?

Somehow, despite the explicit instructions in my subject line,
this has turned into YAEPT.  The sheer power of that
topic is amazing; it's like a black hole sucking in all threads
which get too close to its event horizon.    Obviously my
English phoneme thread started out way too close; I was orbiting
the darn thing.  Anyway . . 

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:05:59PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> AFAIK, all Americans pronounce "Mary" as /meiri/; 
> they pronounce "merry" and "marry" as /meiri/ also.  For me they are
> /mEri/ and /m&ri/ respectively.

Most definitely not.  For me, my wife, our tenant, and most of my
friends and coworkers, all three of them are [mE`r\i], with the
same vowel (apart from the rhoticization) as "met", "bled", etc;
as distinguished from the vowel of "mate", "blade", etc.
Other a+r words have the same "short-e" vowel: "bare" (which
doesn't rhyme with the trade name Bayer, which has /ei/),
"care", "dare", "fair", "fare", "hair", "hare", etc.

> As for "yeah", I've always thought it was a peculiar and perverse
> spelling for the word /jV/.  

Again, not hereabouts.  "Yeah" is pronounced /j{/; it seems to be a
exception to the rule that disallows lax open monosyllables in English.

> If I speak it in extreme slow motion,
> it comes out /je:::::V/, but that's bizarre.

Here it's more like /j{::::ijV/.

-Mark

From markjreed@mail.com Sun Jul 20 17:14:14 2003
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@mail.com>
To: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com>
Subject: Re: Parsing POST and GET variables simultaneously?
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:47:37AM +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> class CGI
>     def query_params
>         params = {}
> 
>         ENV['QUERY_STRING'].split("&").each { |p|
>             k, v = p.split("=")
>             params[CGI.unescape(k)] = CGI.unescape(v)
>         }
> 
>         params
>     end
> end
> 
> ..that does the trick. God, I love Ruby. May I never stray back into 
> PHP-land again :)

May your wish come true. :)  And that solution will indeed work
most of the time.  However, to be perfectly compliant with modern
protocols, you need to split on either '&' or ';'.  And it'd be
better to use the query_string method than to directly access the
environment variable:

class CGI
     def query_params
         params = {}
 
         query_string.split(/[&;]/).each { |p|
             k, v = p.split('=')
             params[CGI.unescape(k)] = CGI.unescape(v)
         }
 
         params
     end
 end

-Mark