But CF does type checking for return types and argument types. It allows polymorphism by checking the type, so why can't we expect it to know enough to sort out the type of the argument passed to it?
Hal Helms Preorder "Discovering ColdFusion Components (CFCs)" at www.techspedition.com -----Original Message----- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 4:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFC theory On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 12:48 , Hal Helms wrote: > I agree with you completely, Matt. I object to CFCs using the "this" > scope and making this public. Why? "this" scope in Java is for public data members (as well as private data members). "this" scope in C++ is for public data members (as well as private data members). > But using an "unnamed scope" seems to > me to be a kludge to get around what should have been implemented. Elsewhere in CF 'variables' and the unnamed scope are synonymous. We have already acknowledged a bug that 'variables' does not behave correctly inside components. That bug will be fixed. > The term, OO, is not merely an imprimatur that marketing can annoint a > product with if it is to mean anything at all. We should be able to > expect that "this" is a private scope, that CFCs would have > overloadable methods, overloadable constructors, etc. Since "this" is *not* a private scope specifically in any OO language I can think of, I think your expectations are wrong - based on lack of knowledge of other OO languages perhaps? As myself and Matt have pointed out, overloading belongs in strongly typed languages, not typeless ones. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
