Here's one:
I'd like positional parameters to modules. It would make calling a module so much more
concise. And I'd like that to extend to CF's built in tags too. For example:
<cfinclude "mytag.cfm"> instead of <cfinclude template="mytag.cfm">
<cfparam "action", "display"> instead of <cfparam name="action" default="display">
It could be easily implemented by passing an "attributes" array with the values in the
order they were passed. It would be helpful to have a helper tag to use in the module
to bind them to variables like so:
<cfattributes "firstvarname", "secondvarname", "thirdvarname", "fourthvarname">
-or-
<cfattributes "firstvarname,secondvarname,thirdvarname,fourthvarname">
This would be used to match up arguments by position. Of course they could still be
specified the old way by name as well.
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And while we're at it, I often have dozens of one variable outputs that are made too
wordy by the syntax: <cfoutput>#var#</cfoutput>. I'd like to see an alternate syntax:
<cfoutput value="#var#"> or even better using position parameters: <cfoutput "#var#">
Of course this could be written as a custom tag:
<cfmyoutput value="#var#">
<cfoutput>#evaluate(attributes.value)#</cfoutput>
But the point it to have dozens of these in a page, and that would slow it down too
much.
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