> Why is the naming not consistent?
>
> For instance... Inside a cfcomponent tag you can have
> functions (cffunction) yet when you publish this as a
> web service you use
> http://someUrl/someDir/componentName.cfc?method=methodName
> in the url. Why not call method function or function
> method in the CFC....
>
> I know this is picky, but is there a reason behind it?
Yes, I think there is.
A method is nothing more than a function that happens to be a member of an
object. This isn't specific to CF, but true in other languages as well. In
CF, actually, you can write a function and later assign it as a method of a
CFC, I think:
<cfcomponent hint="this component would be saved as foo.cfc">
<cfset meaningoflife = "42">
</cfcomponent>
...
<!--- someotherpage.cfm --->
<cffunction name="getmeaningoflife" returntype="numeric">
<cfreturn meaningoflife>
</cffunction>
<cfobject name="newfoo" component="foo">
<cfset newfoo.getmeaningoflife = Variables.getmeaningoflife>
<cfoutput>#newfoo.getmeaningoflife()#</cfoutput>
I think you can do something like this, but I haven't tested this specific
code.
This is how JavaScript works as well; functions are nothing more than
variables that contain code, really, and you can assign them to objects.
When you do this, the function is a method of that object.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
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