Re: [CFCDev] Inside the CFC: use Getter/Setter or Instance Scope

[Brian Kotek]

One glaring exception to this is when your getter returns an array. For some insane reason that only the old time CF creators are aware of, arrays are passed by value not by reference (unlike every other complex data type). So you could do getSomeArray() in your CFC and then do all sorts of fun stuff to the array, only to discover after much exasperating debugging that the original array hasn't been modified at all. So, for everything except arrays I use a getter, and for arrays I either use the instance variable directly or manually set the array using a setter after I am done with it. Annoying? Absolutely. But unfortunately necessary.

On 10/12/05, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I would say a best-practice would be to "always" use getters and
setters, even in your CFC.  The only time you "should" access the
instance variables, directly, would be when you are actually setting or
getting the variables from a client.

This leads to tighter encapsulation since you only have to write the
get/set logic once.

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