I disagree that hints are cleaner than comments. Comments are set apart from the logic, display, whatever. They are semantically easy to parse as ignorable by the system, remove systematically, etc. They don't clutter the tags. They're available both in the tag-based language and script-based language. They're a standard feature, in some way or another, of *every* language.
Replacing them is, in my opinion, silly, and your suggestion seems like an unnecessary "augmentation" that would add neither a fundamental improvement in performance, a new ability, or enhanced ease-of-use. Sorry to be so negative, but I just don't see it. --Ben Doom John Skrotzki wrote: > As I was doing my stuff today I had an interesting idea and wondered what > others thought. In a nutshell it would be cool to be able to have a HINT > attribute for every CFML tag for VERY SHORT comments. I know this mixes > comments within logic but it would be great for certain things. For example: > > <CFPARAM NAME="myVar" DEFAULT="233" HINT="myHint"> > > I have an extensive db value key table with all sorts of combinations and use > its numeric key to represent its value. So, in the above, 233 would equal > some value and the HINT would help the programmer to remember what the key > was. Yes, you could just as easily do <!--- myHint ---> but the above idea > is much cleaner. You could use HINT for all sorts of brief notes... > Thoughts? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:300026 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
