Hi Paul, next to the tool you're using (which I use myself as well) Railo allows you to turn of scope cascading which would then result in runtime errors and force the programmer to scope all unscoped variables (except for the variables scope). Next to the readability this as we all know improves performance since scope cascading is quite time consuming.
Gert Customer Care Railo Technologies GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.railo.ch Join our Mailing List / Treten Sie unserer Mailingliste bei: deutsch: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/railo/ english: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railo_talk/ Paul Vernon schrieb: >> I am of the opinion that all warnings in a program (java, for example) >> should be tracked down and eliminated, even if the "fix" is just to >> disable the warning on the one method/line that is complaining (because >> it is "right"), but every one of them should be examined. For ever 100 >> warnings I get rid of (in a large java program, say) I might find one >> bug waiting to happen, and that one bug is worth fixing. >> > > I agree completely here and it is an ethos that has been drilled into me for > years and years. After I left University, my first job entailed working on a > massive Delphi application consisting of a client, server and a planning > engine all on top of an Oracle database. Customers would complain about the > instability of the client software and when I first compiled it, I knew > why... over 4000 hints and 2000 warnings! Needless to say, I raised this and > was given permission to investigate and reduce the number of hints and > warnings. It took a couple of months to do but every time I committed > changes, there was a marked improvement in stability. In the end, the > compiler was reporting around 100 hints and no warnings... There were no > complaints of instability after we achieved that. > > On a CF front, to check my CFCs for vars that aren't declared, I use > varscoper. > > http://www.schierberl.com/cfblog/index.cfm/2007/10/7/varScoper-11--now-with- > cfscript-parsing > > In fact, in writing this e-mail, I've just realised that 3 days ago, it was > updated so it should be even better than before... Downloading it now :-) > > The other thing I tend to do is make use of cfcompile on a command prompt to > detect any coding errors that may be lying in wait for me. Used In > combination with varscoper, it makes for very reliable CFC coding. > > Paul > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290753 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
