Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC wrote:
I'm on board with the style-critics here... although I think an
artistic CF coder can make a CF page into a work of art... balancing
cfscript and indents and using line breaks in long tags... I enjoy
making my code tidy, even pretty, as much as I do watching it run.
But, I've got a pet peeve about mixing text and vars inside pound signs... like:
"someValue#someVariable#"
I agree icky looking. Maybe it's the musician in me - I'm a classically
trained musician in my undergraduate degree and my wife is a
professional musician. I used to do a lot of music engraving
(transcribing hand written music into electronic commercial type
manuscripts)...there are always many ways to engrave something - some
are just plain easier for the musician to sight read. It's all about
translation here in the end...music or CF code.
I used it for a while, and then immediately dropped it. It's UGLY...
especially when you have nice, tight, clean lines like
someValue[someVariable] instead... or the concat operator...
"someValue" & someVariable
Yes, better - at least to me. You know how many times I get passed some
other person's code and it's full of hashes?
Lately I've realized it makes for more readable, straightforward code
than things mashed together with hashes inside long strings inside
quotes. It's cleaner and doesn't use hashes at all. If I can find a
way to write a routine without them, I will, because they're messy
clutter. Like Sean says about evaluate(), there's far to many times
where they're used when they don't need to be. The only place we need
a hash anymore is in tag attributes
Yes, read the Ben Forta article about using hashes - now if I could just
find the link.... ;-) The article helped me out a couple of years ago -
nailing down the "to be or not to be" question in regards to hashes...
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