From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david.heinemeier@...>
Date: 2005-09-05T01:26:44+09:00
Subject: Re: params v.s. @params in rails?

> The recommendation for using the params method, instead of accessing
> the @params instance variable directly, is that it�s more uniform to
> use the accessor method, since you can also do that from the view.

Direct access to these instance variables is deprecated. The same goes
for cookies, session, request, response, and the other accessors. Use
the accessor instead of going directly, so it's request.get? instead
of @request.get?.
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