nah, I do it because I do enough hand written xml that it just comes (too) natural. do the first "<" and my brain switches to "XML/XHTML MODE"
the point of turning CF into a full XML structured language has been explored to death - it ain't gonna happen anytime soon. <cfelse> is one stumbling block (and there are many more). put it down to a bunch of nit-picking show-offs (that's my excuse anyhoo) my 2c barry.b On 7/29/05, Adrocknaphobia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is pretty way off-topic but I was hoping to get a census on this. > I'm constantly reviewing code samples and resumes for a number of > firms and I've started to notice with more frequency that some CFers > are writing CF as if it was XML. I'm not really sure why. > > I'm not seeing any benefit in this, and quite frankly it just looks > wrong. So I was wondering if anyone could point out why anyone would > write cfml in the following manner: > > <cfset temp = "this is my variable" /> > > <cfreturn true /> > > Am I missing something here? > > -Adam > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the > email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting > (www.cfxhosting.com). > > CFCDev is supported by New Atlanta, makers of BlueDragon > http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). CFCDev is supported by New Atlanta, makers of BlueDragon http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
