> I had no idea my innocent little best practices document would
> generate SO MUCH discussion ;)
Well, at least from me, thanks for starting the discussion. I've learned
some stuff, had some opinions validated, and changed my mind on a couple
things that I've designed recently.
Cheers,
barneyb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Nathan Dintenfass
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [CFCDev] OUTPUT="false", WAS: RFC, CFC Best Practices
I guess for me it boils down to the fact that there is no benefit to
outputting directly inside a CFC method, yet there are lots of benefits to
not doing it. I believe it was Barney who pointed out on this thread that
separating logic from presentation is a "good thing" -- plus, even if you
have a CFC designed for display it still doesn't address my very simple and
common case of wanting to build your page output via a series of string
concatenations inside CFSCRIPT (for instance, maybe you want to generate
static HTML pages or just pull together different page elements into a
single variable) -- if you output directly you wouldn't be able to do that,
and, more importantly, the end developer using your CFC now has to be aware
of HOW you implemented your methods, which is the classic no-no of
encapsulation.
More to the point -- what is the BENEFIT of using anything other
than OUTPUT="false" really?
I had no idea my innocent little best practices document would
generate SO MUCH discussion ;)
- Nathan
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Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [CFCDev] OUTPUT="false", WAS: RFC, CFC Best
Practices
At 01:22 PM 3/16/2004, you wrote:
Jeffry:
I'll assume the other posts answered your first
question about why init() is good
My question was why is using the "psuedo-constructor" bad?
As to why OUTPUT="false" is a good thing -- the main
reason is that you don't want to break encapsulation.
What do you think about CFCs designed for the sole purpose
of displaying data? ( And by you, I mean anyone on the list who feels the
need to share)
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