Are you sure?
there would of course be no point in reading the params into a hash or
array structure if you still access them as scalars one by one. as soon
as you have the values in a sensible structures, many ways suggest
themselves to solve the problem.
You are referring to a post that I wrote in response to a follow-up post
from Gunnar Hjalmarsson. Please do not use it as an argument against my
original post as that would be to take it out of context.
the $q->Vars solution is not the only one. did you see the proposal by
A. Sinan Unur in where the
form values are read directly into a suitable hash of arrays structure?
I did. His is a model answer: helpful and non-condescending to the OP.
My point is not about the quality of the solutions offered but the way
in which they were offered: namely four posts in a row that were being
condescending to the OP when he was doing his best (IMHO).
Ted sums things up neatly in a later post, namely:
The OP presented it optimized for easy understanding, the followups
presented it optimized for processing.
Since he wanted an implementation, the progression was already heading
in the Right Direction, towards a working implementation.
It was _constructive_ criticism, he wasn't going about it the best way.
Whether the first few responses were constructive criticism or not is
now a matter of opinion so I suggest that we let it lie.
I hope that I have at least caused people to think even if they don't
agree.
Regards,
