-Matt
On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Andy Ousterhout wrote:
Are there other types of methods were THIS should be returned?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Blair Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] RFC, CFC Best Practices
I do not understand returning "THIS" from the init? What purpose does this serve?
Doing a <cfreturn this> at the end of the init() means you can chain method calls like follows:
myObj = createobject("component", "myComponent").init();
If the init() call didn't return "this" at the end you'd have to do the above in two steps:
myObj = createobject("component", "myComponent"); myObj.init();
Tim.
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