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,
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