Okay, that's what I needed to know. So this convention is limited to encoding nesting relationships for Hashes, denoting Array values, and it apparently originated from PHP. Still looking for the proper term for this convention, but that's good enough for now.
On Aug 25, 12:48 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > > [Please quote when replying.] > > > Adam Lassek wrote: > >> That's not all there is to it. There is also a convention using > >> parentheses to combine parameters together. > > > Never heard of this. Example? > > Oh, wait, are you talking about the (1i) used in date selectors? So far > as I know, that's specific to the date parsing code, not a basic field > combining feature. > > > > > Best, > > -- > > Marnen Laibow-Koser > >http://www.marnen.org > > [email protected] > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

