[Nitro] param handling

[James Britt]

George Moschovitis wrote:
> Hey Jonathan,
> 
> very descriptive email ;-)
> 
> 
>>George wants the first to be possible, I don't.
> 
> 
> In my design arguments == parameters. But after reading your nice
> email, I am begining to like your idea to separate args/params. I am
> not yet convinced though. Let's see what others think  about this.
> 

I like the transparency of having arguments in the URL.

I like the idea that a controller and its methods not need have to look 
for some magic object holding additional parameters.

   controller/action/baz

would map to

  Controller#action(baz)

while

  controller/action/baz?x=y

would either mean the passing of extraneous arguments, or that the 
action must be defined to accept a hash:

  Controller#action(baz, opts={})

I'm not entirely convinced of this, but I wrote a small MVC Web 
framework a few weeks ago, and tried to make it as obvious as could be 
reasonable.  Later, I saw someone else announced a similar framework, 
but he included an ubiquitous 'params' thing.  I hadn't found a need for 
that in my work, and I'm wondering if its inclusion is all that good.



-- 
James Britt

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