While I agree with Larry Wall that laziness is one of the primary
virtues of a programmer, I also believe that when you are faced with a
technique that saves time when coding vs a technique that saves time
when modifying 2 years later, you should always choose the later.
When you are looking at a piece of code generating errors in the middle
of your function, will you remember what 'lcl' means? Or especially '$'?
What are the chances your co-workers will identify it?
'local' is more likely to be recognized as a local scope.
I'm not trying to preach, I am just in the unfortunate situation of
supporting my own 3-year-old cf code, and I wish I learned this lesson
earlier.
-mark
Paul Roe wrote:
so forever i have been doing the following to make sure that I scope
local vars in my functions in my cfc's:
<cfset var lcl = StructNew() />
<cfset lcl.end = 10 />
<cfloop from="1" to="#lcl.end#" index="lcl.i">
etc....
While playing around today i noticed that the following also works:
<cfset var $ = StructNew() />
<cfset $.end = 10 />
<cfloop from="1" to="#$.end#" index="$.i">
Can anyone see a good reason why I shouldn't use the $ to denote
locally scoped variables in functions?
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