I have alwasy considered data types such as strings, integers, floats, etc to be objects that just come "built in" to the language - simple objects, perhaps, but objects none-the-less.
Its kind of hard for me to explain but they do in fact model real world objects (words, sentencs, numbers, etc) and provide methods/operations that can be performed. Maybe I use the term "object" too loosely in this regard - but if so it is a failing I will probably never fully get rid of :O) Bill On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:06:35 -0500, Ben Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Acutally, I think the proper description would be that the CF Query object > > is an object wrapping a data structure, but I think we're really just > > discussing semantics here :) The CFQuery object itself > > (coldfusion.sql.QueryTable) has much more functionality than is revealed > > by > > default - here are some of the other undocumented CFQuery members - a > > CFDUMP > > reveals even more: > > As far as I know, all of the intrinsic ColdFusion data types and data > structures will produce similar results, including even strings. That > doesn't make a string an object, however. > > The distinction, I think, is in the context. From within CFML, queries are > data structures. Yes, there are undocumented ways to call methods on them, > but that's outside the scope of this conversation: a ColdFusion query ceases > to be a Coldfusion.sql.QueryTable when it's returned from a Web service. > > To put it another way, I'm sure that a window is an object from within .Net, > but at the user interface level, it's just a window to me. More to the > point, when I pass back a ColdFusion query from Web service, I'm passing > back a data structure, not an object. > > Anyway, I think you're right in that we generally agree. I'm probably being > to pedantic about terminology -- assuming, of course, I'm even right, which > is rarely the case. :) > > Ben Rogers > http://www.c4.net > v.508.240.0051 > f.508.240.0057 > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.rawlinson.us I have 9 gmail invites,want one? ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
