Differences between action and methods in Grails controllers

Question

As far as I know, if I want to create an action in a controller then I can do it by:

class My Controller {
    def myAction = {
      println \"in my action \"
          


        

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but I think that it used to be the first way was the only way to do it, and then it changed to allow the second way. I think that the second way is the preffered way, but I'm not sure.

[Edit]

Here is another stack overflow post further explaining it:

Why should grails actions be declared as methods instead of closures and what difference does it make?