[Gas] Re: Changed Gas::form_preamble()

[Zachary C.Miller]

Correct. I think we could engineer a change that would not break
existing stuff. For now just go with what Bob has done and I'll figure
out something more standard (but non-breaking) later.

Sigfried Gold wrote:
> 
> that's a change that will break existing stuff, right?
> 
> * Zachary C.Miller <wolfgang at wolfgang.groogroo.com> :
> > > $form = $gas->form_preamble( "GET", to=>'foo' ); 
> > > 
> > > or,
> > > 
> > > $form = $gas->form_preamble( {method=>"GET", form_name=>"bar"}, 
> > > 							 to=>'foo' ); 
> > 
> > I wonder if it might make sense to structure this like this instead
> > (in keeping with the style of other Gas stuff):
> > 
> > $form = $gas->form_preamble( -method => "GET",
> >                              -form_name => "bar",
> >                              [ to => 'foo', from =>'baz', meef=>1 ] );
> > 
> > It just makes sense to me that if anything deserves to be grouped into
> > a hash it is the key/vals rather than the function's other unrelated
> > parameters. It would have to be a anon array since there may be 2 vals
> > for 1 key.
> > 
> > The function itself would start something like this then:
> > 
> > sub form_preamble {
> >         my @keyvals = @{pop @_};  # in the old subroutine this was @param
> >         my %params = @_;
> > #...
> > }
> > 
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