On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 04:11 PM, Dave Carabetta wrote: >> When I first encountered this issue back in a beta release, I thought >> it was a bug, as well (in fact, I nearly filed it as one), however >> someone explained it to me, and it made sense. When I saw this >> thread, >> I couldn't remember what that reason was, so I asked Sean, and he >> reminded me that the purpose is to make your ColdFusion code >> case-insensitive, even on a UNIX platform. In other words, by >> lowercasing the filenames before looking up the CFC, you call call a >> component "Person.cfc" or "PERSON.CFC" or "perSON.cFc" in your code, >> and "person.cfc" will always be the name looked up. >> >> It seems strange at first, but it makes sense. It is essentially an >> attempt to make CF case-insensitive on a case sensitive OS. > > And yet file names for all .cfm files still have to adhere to the > usual *nix > casing rules. Why not implement this "case-conversion" mechanism for > <cfinclude>s and Application.cfm, etc., as well then? > > Personally, it's not big deal for me, as I'm pretty anal about casing > and > stuff as a result of being in a *nix environment. But it seems that > your > logic holds for only *part* of the CF implementation as opposed to > across-the-board. If I have to be particular about how I code my > template > name in a <cfinclude> tag, I should be just as particular about how I > code > my CFC in my <cfinvoke> tag or my CreateObject() function. Or vice > versa. > > You disagree?
Not at all. I think you make a very valid point. I will pass this along internally. Christian > > Regards, > Dave. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
