Re: CGI Session management (was Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6)

2006-09-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Yuval Kogman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-12 12:05]: There are *so* many ways to do session handling that lugging them all into CGI.pm will just make a mess. Agreed, but maybe this is a case where it would make sense to do something like what Perl 6 does for OO vs Perl 5, ie provide one good

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

2006-09-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Trey Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-10 23:50]: But the HTML methods are used everywhere. And the more novitiate the programmer, the more likely they are to be using them spaghetti-like throughtout their code. If they discover that every time they see a Cstart_form it's going to entail

Re: CGI Session management (was Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6)

2006-09-16 Thread Juerd
F.ex., I could imagine that CGI.pm6 would provide a framework for Please, please, please, let us not call this module CGI or anything closely resembling it. This will only fool a lot of inexperienced Perl 5 programmers, and start a lot of fuss about the interface being incompatible. And, of

Re: Charsets in HTTP (was: the CGI.pm in Perl 6)

2006-09-16 Thread Darren Duncan
At 7:38 PM +0200 9/16/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Darren Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-09 20:40]: 4. Make UTF-8 the default HTTP response character encoding, and the default declared charset for text/* MIME types, and explicitly declare that this is what the charset is. The only time