Ben, Something has puzzled me and I wonder if you'd care to comment on it: We know that CF is a weakly-typed language, yet CFCs allow returntypes to be defined for methods and types to be defined for arguments. If this is done, CF will enforce some form of runtime type-checking.
What would be the major impediment to overloaded methods then? If we can and do have runtime type-checking, wouldn't overloaded methods be at least possible? I suspect, though, that there's something I don't understand that would make this impractical, but I'd love to know what it is. Grazi, Hal Helms "Java for CF Programmers" class in Las Vegas, August 18-22 www.halhelms.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Forta Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Overloading CFCs Sean, No, overloading is not going to be supported in Red Sky. Truth is, the whole concept of overloading is a tough one in ColdFusion as CF is typeless. Your best bet is to have a method accept any and all types, and then check to see what the type is in the method and call other code accordingly. --- Ben -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sean Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Overloading CFCs Thanks Hal. Do you know if this was fixed in Red Sky? BTW looking forward to your class in LV. Sean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Helms Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Overloading CFCs Your terms are right, Sean, but unfortunately, CFCs don't support method overloading. Hal Helms "Java for CF Programmers" class in Las Vegas, August 18-22 www.halhelms.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sean Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CFCDev] Overloading CFCs Hello All, I apologize in advance as this may be a newbie question. I am currently working with the Mach-ii methodology and was trying to do the following in a CFC. I want to narrow down the error I am getting to either a logic issue on my hand or something in the mach-ii framework. I am basically trying to *overload* the CFC (might be confusing my terms here). That is if the arguments passed to setInfo is a struct, then the second function is called, if a simple numeric value is passed, than the first function is executed. <cffunction name="setInfo" access="public"> <cfargument name="bidAmount" type="numeric" required="true" /> <cfset this.bidAmountD = arguments.bidAmount /> <cfset this.bidMaxAMount = arguments.bidAmount /> <cfset this.bidType = 1/> <cfset this.bidderID = 0 /> <cfset this.targetAuctionID = 97507 /> </cffunction> <cffunction name="setInfo" access="public"> <cfargument name="info" type="query" required="true" /> <cfset this.bidAmountD = arguments.info.bidAmount /> <cfset this.bidMaxAMount = arguments.info.bidMaxAmount /> <cfset this.bidType = arguments.info.bidType /> <cfset this.bidderID = arguments.info.bidderID /> <cfset this.targetAuctionID = arguments.info.targetAuctionID /> </cffunction> Thanks in advance. Sean Scott http://www.kubeworks.com {work} http://www.kubeworks.com/personal {play} ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
