Still making your way there, Ben? I just read another post on your site about security where you expose the potential dangers of having access to the THIS scope. After reading it, I understood the differences between the THIS and VARIABLES scope but thought, man, Ben must have a good gasp of OOP and components in order to figure that out.
Who figures? -Aaron On 11/16/06, Ben Nadel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron, > > I too am on the Safari... I recently was blogging about thinking about > the two different ways. You might want to check it out as far as the > user comments (http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:364.view). > > You have to think about what the two scope need to accomplish. Do you > need to "hide" the data? Does data need to be accessible. Many classes > have constants (ex. Paper.A4_LAYOUT). These are clearly not private and > would be stored in the THIS scope. However, if you want to encapsulate > the variables so that people cannot mess with them directly, you might > want to put them in VARIABLES and have getters/setters. > > Of course, take that with 2 grains of salt as I am in a similar boat... > Still making my way there. > > > ...................... > Ben Nadel > Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer > www.bennadel.com > > Need ColdFusion Help? > www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:260731 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
