On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Matthew Reinbold
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I know that correctly scoping variables in ColdFusion is important to prevent
> unexpected results if a variable is "accidentally" reused elsewhere in a CFC.
> But, if I remember correctly, in CFMX there were some pretty nasty memory
> leaks that could occur if variables weren't scoped correctly.
>
> Does that apply to newer (8,9) versions of ColdFusion?
Yup. All function-local variables in a CFC should be var scoped. CF
9 did introduce the "local" scope inside of CFC methods, so doing
this:
<cffunction name="myFunction">
<cfset local.myVariable = "foo" />
</cffunction>
is functionally equivalent to doing:
<cffunction name="myFunction">
<cfset var myVariable = "foo" />
</cffunction>
So while there are now 2 ways to declare a variable as local to a
given function (assuming you're on CF 9), the requirement still
remains that you do need to scope these variables properly in order to
avoid leakage.
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