Re: CGI.pm

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OK, I know it doesn't lessen the hate, but

Aaron Crane wrote:
>   print hidden('field_name', $field_value);
[...]
>   print hidden(
>       -name     => 'field_name',
>       -default  => $field_value,
>       -override => 1,
>   );
[...]
> This API is just astoundingly fuckwitted.  I can't conceive of any situation
> in which it would be desirable behaviour, and it has caused huge numbers of
> bugs in the software I maintain.  And that's in spite of the fact that I
> know about this brokenness -- it's so stupid that it's apparently impossible
> to remember to use the ridiculous workaround.

   sub hidden {
       return CGI::hidden(-name     => $_[0],
                          -default  => $_[1],
                          -override => 1,
       );
   }

?

N

• CGI.pm Aaron Crane 13:11 on 27 Jun 2006
  • Re: CGI.pm Nik Clayton 14:03 on 27 Jun 2006
  • Hakim Cassimally 14:15 on 27 Jun 2006
  • A. Pagaltzis 19:47 on 27 Jun 2006
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 20:02 on 27 Jun 2006
    • A. Pagaltzis 20:16 on 27 Jun 2006
      • too deep to show

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