Dave Watts wrote:
> This is a mistake, unless you've actually decompiled CF or used JVM
> instrumentation to verify this. It's easy to jump from interface (what
> you interact with) to a conclusion about implementation (how it works
> under the covers) but you really don't have enough evidence to do that
> (and if you did that, I'm pretty confident that you'd be wrong about
> this speculation, for reasons I'll explain shortly). What we call
> scopes are just another kind of namespace. Their only job is to
> control where and when we can refer to specific variables that they
> contain.
>   

Since I have it lying around, have a link:
http://www.skydancer.org.uk/namespaces.cfm

It's incomplete, and constructed way back in CF7, but I'd expect that
it's pretty much unchanged in CF8 and CF9.

-- 
Regards,

Pete Jordan
Horus Web Engineering Ltd
http://www.webhorus.net/
phone: +44 1482 446471
mobile: +44 7973 725120


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion
Archive: 
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344747
Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm

Reply via email to