[Catalyst] question from tutorial - does creating HTML in a controller using HTML::Widget violate MVC?

[Eden Cardim]

On 12/6/06, Michael Reece <mreece at vinq.com> wrote:
> what about implicit data retrieval via method calls on objects passed
> to templates?
>
>         <% $thing->owner->name %>

Well, if the view shouldn't have access to the implicit data via some
object, the controller shouldn't have passed that object to the view
in the first place. An object is still an object, whether it's stored
in a database or not.

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