Dave,
I lost your reasoning somewhere down the lines. I understand that
using THIS inside a component causes it to be self-documenting by
default in CF while using VARIABLES does not. However, it sounds like
you are saying the opposite. Are you advocating the VARIABLES scope or
the THIS scope?
-Aaron
On 11/16/06, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A lot of people will say "NEVER" use the 'this' scope. But I
> > say if one understands the differences between the
> > 'variables' scope and the 'this' scope (how the former is
> > private and the latter is public) and code accordingly, I say
> > it is a development choice on which scope one uses.
>
> There really isn't any good reason to have public member variables. It's not
> significantly harder to call a method:
>
> <cfset myobj.setvar("myval")>
>
> than to set a variable:
>
> <cfset myobj.var = "myval">
>
> The former approach has a lot of advantages, including the ability to expose
> only the things that need to be exposed, and the ability to embed simple
> validation logic within the method call. In CF, you also get the additional
> advantage of auto-generated documentation. If you use public member
> variables they aren't documented by default; you have to use CFPROPERTY to
> generate that documentation.
>
> If you're the only programmer working on a project (and the only one who
> will ever work on it), you can certainly use public member variables.
> However, that doesn't work well when you have multiple programmers, or want
> to distribute components, etc. Most things that are considered "best
> practices", are considered that because they work well in larger development
> environments as well as smaller ones.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
>
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