* Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-20 22:25]: > I think it's time we moved away from the param method, and > started using a hash.
I don’t know about that. The `param` method has the nice property that it allows you to pretend everything’s a single value or to use multi-valued params, at your own discretion, at any time, with no change of syntax. my $foo = $q->param( 'foo' ); my @bar = $q->param( 'bar' ); If you tried to do this with a hash, you’d get my $foo = $q->param->{ 'foo' }[0]; # my ( $foo ) = @{ $q->param->{ 'foo' } }; my @bar = @{ $q->param->{ 'bar' } }; You could try making the type of the value depend on arity and be either a scalar or an arrayref, but then you get V*E*R*Y U*G*L*Y client code that needs to constantly check whether it’s dealing with one or the other. Does Perl 6 offer any help in making access to a HoL look like the first example? If not, then no, let’s please stick with the `param` protocol. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>