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diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Component.pm b/lib/Catalyst/Component.pm
index 2fd7181..f747099 100644
--- a/lib/Catalyst/Component.pm
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/Component.pm
@@ -28,14 +28,18 @@ Catalyst::Component - Catalyst Component Base Class
 
     __PACKAGE__->config( foo => 'bar' );
 
+    has foo => (
+        is => 'ro',
+    );
+
     sub test {
         my $self = shift;
-        return $self->{foo};
+        return $self->foo;
     }
 
     sub forward_to_me {
         my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
-        $c->response->output( $self->{foo} );
+        $c->response->output( $self->foo );
     }
 
     1;
@@ -46,16 +50,23 @@ Catalyst::Component - Catalyst Component Base Class
     # Or just methods
     print $c->comp('MyApp::Model::Something')->test;
 
-    print $c->comp('MyApp::Model::Something')->{foo};
+    print $c->comp('MyApp::Model::Something')->foo;
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This is the universal base class for Catalyst components
 (Model/View/Controller).
 
-It provides you with a generic new() for instantiation through Catalyst's
+It provides you with a generic new() for component construction through Catalyst's
 component loader with config() support and a process() method placeholder.
 
+B<Note> that calling C<< $self->config >> inside a component is strongly
+not recommended - the correctly merged config should have already been
+passed to the constructor and stored in attributes - accessing
+the config accessor directly from an instance is likely to get the
+wrong values (as it only holds the class wide config, not things loaded
+from the config file!)
+
 =cut
 
 __PACKAGE__->mk_classdata('_plugins');
@@ -127,7 +138,7 @@ sub config {
         # TODO maybe this should be a ClassData option?
         my $class = blessed($self) || $self;
         my $meta = Class::MOP::get_metaclass_by_name($class);
-        unless ($meta->has_package_symbol('$_config')) {
+        unless (${ $meta->get_or_add_package_symbol('$_config') }) {
             # Call merge_hashes to ensure we deep copy the parent
             # config onto the subclass
             $self->_config( Catalyst::Utils::merge_hashes($config, {}) );
@@ -170,7 +181,7 @@ to be stored in the application's component hash.
 
 C<< my $component_instance = $component->COMPONENT($app, $arguments); >>
 
-If this method is present (as it is on all Catalyst::Component subclasses,
+If this method is present (as it is on all Catalyst::Component subclasses),
 it is called by Catalyst during setup_components with the application class
 as $app and any config entry on the application for this component (for example,
 in the case of MyApp::Controller::Foo this would be
@@ -180,7 +191,7 @@ The arguments are expected to be a hashref and are merged with the
 C<< __PACKAGE__->config >> hashref before calling C<< ->new >>
 to instantiate the component.
 
-You can override it in your components to do custom instantiation, using
+You can override it in your components to do custom construction, using
 something like this:
 
   sub COMPONENT {
@@ -200,6 +211,12 @@ key value pair, or you can specify a hashref. In either case the keys
 will be merged with any existing config settings. Each component in
 a Catalyst application has its own config hash.
 
+The component's config hash is merged with any config entry on the
+application for this component and passed to C<new()> (as mentioned
+above at L</COMPONENT>). The recommended practice to access the merged
+config is to use a Moose attribute for each config entry on the
+receiving component.
+
 =head2 $c->process()
 
 This is the default method called on a Catalyst component in the dispatcher.