From: "Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@...>
Date: 2005-09-05T02:19:53+09:00
Subject: Re: params v.s. @params in rails?

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:26:44AM +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> > 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?.

Another reason is that the accessor method conceals the actual implementation
of params from the client which allows for a more flexible and cleaner
design.  

marcel
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