A Proposal To Magically Remove 'params'

[Bob Hutchison]

Hi,

On 5-Sep-07, at 10:13 AM, ry dahl wrote:

> Bob Hutchison wrote:
>> Another dissenting voice... I will not/cannot avoid the use of the
>> params object in some of my applications. So, please, no deprecation.
>> I don't care if Merb supported controller parameters or not, in
>> principle. I doubt I'd ever use them, I prefer to look at the params
>> object as an input data thing that needs to be inspected rather
>> carefully. On the other hand, Merb is still mostly light and easy to
>> understand, and starts very quickly -- it would be sad to see this  
>> end.
>
> Bob, in what way are you using params? Why can't you avoid it? I think
> you are not thinking about this correctly.

Well, I'll give you an example. One of my applications is a course  
management system that administers and marks quizzes. The quiz is  
supplied as data to the program and the program generates the form.  
There is a single action in the controller that handles the test  
marking and updates the student's 'transcript'.

Cheers,
Bob

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