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[REBOL] Re: works for GET, not POST

From: rebol:techscribe at: 31-Jan-2001 10:36

Hi GS Jones, I didn't read your message as containing anything negative. In the version I'm using on the Website I use the make object! in the calling function instead of in the retrieve-user-data function. That's incidental. The reason for make object! is: decode-cgi returns a block that contains set-word! value pairs: [name: "some-name" phone: "some-phone"] To conveniently retrieve the values by using a path notation, result/name result/phone I use the block returned by decode-cgi to construct an object: result: make object! decode-cgi input If I were to simply say result: decode-cgi input then I wouldn't be able to access the values in the block using the path notation in combination with the names: result/name wouldn't work because in the block name appears as name: result/name: wouldn't work because upon parsing a set-word as the last element of a path REBOL expects that you are changing the value following the word name and I would get an error reporting that the value being assigned to result/name: is missing. The one option would be to reduce the block returned by decode-cgi. Then name and phone will become global words that are associated with their respective values. I prefer to work with words that are local to the object's context to avoic conflicts with other words that may be in use. Hope this helps, Elan GS Jones wrote: