[Catalyst-dev] RFC: action_uri

[Matt S Trout]

Jonathan Rockway wrote:
>>     $c->controller('Foo::Bar')->action_for('baz')->uri_for($c, bla);
> 
> This is my favorite, although I would write:
> 
>     $c->controller('Foo::Bar')->action('baz')->uri({key => "value"});
> 
> Basically I have two questions in my mind after reading your proposed
> syntax:
> 
> 1) Why is there a distinction between controller and action (controller
> is just controller, action is action_for)

Because otherwise anybody with a controller method called "action" would have 
been fucked trying to use it.

And given action_for was added for 5.70 I didn't fancy our chances of nobody 
having such a method already :)

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