> I don't try to second-guess unusual scenarios under which race conditions > might not need locking; I just lock them according to the rules,
C'mon, I asked a very specific question. I know my example is frivolous but it is oversimple for the sake of easy illustration. I gave a specific example of a 'throwaway' piece of code that can do no harm if it is off in its display (read) and the developer has determined that if its off in its value (read and write) this is not of interest (i.e.its a benign race condition). You said it must be locked anyway. If the reason is "because I do not do sloppy work and I consider this sloppy" thats fine for you but it is not a requirement of the CF environment. Or tell me what I am missing and why it is. The rules as I read them -- the ones on Macromedia.com I am constrained to point out -- mean you make an informed rather than a blanket decision. I disagree with the blanket approach unless the developer is unsure of their footing or their needs. Calling the Coding Guidelines "Sean Corfield's rules" seems heavy-handed. If Macromedia LiveDocs hosts the site, as it does, I am taking this as a sign that there's more here than Sean blogging what he thinks. Its been stated before that the site contains the rules that Macromedia itself uses when building its own ColdFusion applications. You are saying they are wrong and, for the moment at least, I don't accept that. This is a subject that has been beaten to death over and over again. IIRC the shared-scope portion of these docs is a fairly recent revision, and probably placed as an attempt to add some reasonably official clarity to a subject that -- unquestionably -- is poorly understood by the CF community. I don't buy that it would wrong at this late date. -- --mattRobertson-- Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:206028 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
