On 7/7/06, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I remember on the CFEclipse list, someone saying how it would be easier > to parse the CF code if it was XML compliant. > > This is simply ridiculous: both CF and XML are in fact SGML compliant > (at least almost), > so what's really the big difference? > > Secondly, does it really matters for us developers that CF is easier or > harder to parse? > As far as the CF parser parses, who cares how many microseconds it takes. > ? > And who cares how many weeks or months it took to the programer who > wrote the parser?
Oh, I dunno. If it mattered that much, we'd probably be using more natural language type whatnot, neh? If you're talking "parse" as in some dude just looking at the code and understanding what is going on... :-) Sometimes you need to access stuff through a 3rd party, say scripts or IDE's or whatever. Then doesn't it make sense to have easy parse-ability? Or at least as a developer, wouldn't you like that? Wouldn't take months to write a parser then, neh? :-) It doesn't really matter, man. Well formed XML is cool because it's sorta like regularexpression-wrappable data chunks. Easy automated documentation creation (not that using some @argument type notation isn't easy, but you get the idea there too, right? tokenized stuff that's easy to move around or get to?) if you've structured it thus, and all kind of cool stuff. But, like, you pay the price, with a lot of verbosity. I'm not sure one way or another is really "better"... probably just right tools for right jobs or however that is. And, so far, I've found, that pretty much anything is possible, so, who cares how easy or hard, or how long it takes? ;-) :DeN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:245781 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
