I know I should resist, but alas...
John, if you are going to say that someone is bad at critical thinking and go so far as to suggest that they should take a course in it then I think it would be fair for you to indicate which logical fallacies they have used and why. For example, impugning the person instead of directly addressing their point would be an example of ad hominem.
You could certainly assert that statements that encapsulation is worthy because it is a long standing practice are examples of the fallacy of common practice - and that would indeed have merit. They also state, however, that ample reasons exist for this practice and that those reasons have been covered extensively elsewhere. While your request for people making this case to explicitly state these reasons is valid argumentation, no-one has any obligation to do so.
Steve
At 08:43 PM 9/30/2004, you wrote:
On the point that going to a new system (based on scope conflicts) could make the CFC's obsolete. Does that mean if the interface has to be updated for the new system that encapsulation isn't any good either. Your arguments fail in critical thinking. You should go take a course in critical thinking to see if you could prose your argument better. You may have a point... but you haven't made it yet.
Further more... I think Sean's thoughts about encapsulation are "mostly" correct. My debate is the thinking that it is an "absolute rule". I am not likely to agree that calling a cgi variable inside a CFC is a violation of good code. Start there... and I would honestly like to see it if there is a point. Sean supported the point by saying it violated encapsulation. That is what we call circular reasoning.
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