From: "Bryan Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 4:15 PM Subject: RE: Called as module or include?
> For one, it adds definition to the code. It's easier to see what's going on > when the FORM or URL scope is explicity used. > > For two, there are a few times when you'll have a page that could accept a > variabl via form or url. In this case you MAY choose to leave the variable > name unscoped so that either one will be picked up by the code, but further > down in the same code you may need to distinguish between FORM or URL to > determine a course of action. > > There are plenty more reasons hiding out there, but these are two I can > think of right now... Those are the ones I want to hear. These reasons are both basically "So I can allow scope precedence to handle my variable scoping for me and hope I don't accidentally use the same variable name in two searched scopes to mean two different things". > I'm sure someone will berate me for even mentioning > the second one, and to them I say "there is a time and place for everything" > ;) Regards, John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/TransitionPoint ----- Original Message ----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
