Chris Mear wrote: > On 25 Aug 2010, at 19:04, Adam Lassek wrote: > >> 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. > > The concept of parsing parameters into a 'deep hash' based on field > names in square brackets was already present in the initial commit of > Rails: > [...]
Thanks for the history lesson. That was fascinating. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://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.

