I agree with your thoughts, I'm glad you put into words what I think about OO and CF.
An all or nothing approach seems to put many people off and no one seems to advocate a slow move into OO with the use of good functions and site/app architecture. Instead we get told to go down the CFC route and ask no questions(ok, maybe not that harsh). After all, a good abstraction is a good abstraction whether it's in a CFC or a function outside of one. Of course there is the 'learning bad habits' excuse, but a well thought out function is a very good thing and that excuse can be applied to everything we do. Ade -----Original Message----- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 February 2005 01:00 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: THIS scope I'm an advocate of OOP but not a zealot. There are times when I see someone create a class like this that I want to cry: <cfcomponent name="filereader"> <cffunction name="readfile"> <cfargument name="file" type="string" required="true"> <cfset var filedata = ""> <cffile action="read" file="#file#" variable="filedata"> <cfreturn filedata> </cffunction> </cfcomponent> It's usually a little more involved than that, but I have seen an entire component not much more complex than this from someone who is considered an advanced resource... Which essentially meant that they were unhappy with simply having a function and so they tacked on the extra overhead and syntactical complexity of instantiating an object and carrying around two extra scopes, etc. all so they could read a file... Obviously I don't jive with the "it's an object or it's crap" camp... I've heard Simon Horwith say that a function should never be written outside of a CFC -- I've actually exchanged email about it with him, and I still disagree... If a function is highly cohesive and is not _logically_ part of a greater conceptual structure that would merit a CFC, I don't buy creating a "miscellaneous functions" CFC just so that all your functions are in CFC's. None of the ColdFusion native functions are grouped into CFC's, even when there is a logical association (XML functions or Regular Expression functions for instance) and I have no problems using them either. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 22/02/2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:196449 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
