Hi Dave, Two responses to this concern:
1) All of the enhancements we're making to CFCs in BlueDragon 7.0 will be optional. Like CFCs themselves, if anyone thinks these advanced features are too complex then they're free not to use them. 2) All of these enhancements will be fully backwards-compatible. That is, if you write CFC code that runs on CFMX or BD 6.2.1, that code will continue to run without modification on BD 7.0. Finally, I do believe these enhancements will be simpler for CFML developers than writing the same thing in Java. I'd don't think adding optional TYPE="static" or TYPE="abstract" attributes to CFFUNCTION is going to be too difficult for most people to understand (especially the advanced CFC developers that are represented on this list). Vince Bonfanti New Atlanta Communications, LLC http://www.newatlanta.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Watts > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Static CFC methods > ...snip... > > I think a lot of these ideas sound really nice, but there's a > part of me that doesn't want CF to turn into Java, which > seems to be the direction we're going. I think it's a bit > difficult to preserve the simplicity of CFML and make it do > everything syntactically that Java can do: interfaces, > constructors, etc, etc. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber > vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in > Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern > Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
