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To: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@edge.co.jp>
From: Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>
Subject: Re: inconsistency between CGI.pm and
Apache::Request
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:52:20 -0500
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa writes:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:58:39 -0000
> Matt Sergeant <msergeant@startechgroup.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I guess so. Your above is equivalent to:
> >
> > $r->param(foo => 'a', b => 'c');
> >
> > (foo => qw(a b c)) doesn't do what it looks like it does, and that's a bad
> > thing.
>
> I know! but CGI.pm does it, so what I want is interface
> consistency. CGI.pm also has a named parameter style which
> Apache::Request doesn't support, like
>
> $q->param(-name => 'foo', -value => [ qw(a b c) ]);
> print join '/', $q->param('foo'); # a/b/c
I'm amazed that CGI.pm does this, but you're right. What's bad is
that this style doesn't work as expected:
p $r->param(foo=>[qw(a b c)])
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