It's about more than just the return type.
For instance, this is perfectly valid in cf:
<cfset myQuery = QueryNew("columns go here")>
<cfset myQuery = "Woohoo! This used to be a query - now it's a string!">
That's all because of loose typing. In fact, in CF, you can do this:
<cfset myQuery = QueryNew("column1")>
<cfset myQuery = "Woohoo! This used to be a query - now it's a string!">
<cfoutput query="myQuery">
#column1#
</cfoutput>
And CF won't complain about it until runtime because it does no compile time
check on the variable types. In a strongly typed language, you'd get a
compile error when you tried to assign a string to a query object.
You also would no longer need hacks like JavaCast() to pass strongly-typed
variables into java calls.
Roland
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Patrick McElhaney
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Mixins vs. Interfaces
On 4/6/06, Roland Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It should be a page-level or function-level directive.
>
> <cfsettting strongtyping="true">
>
Isn't it already a function-level directive? You can set
returntype="any" on cffunction and type="any" on cfargument.
Can you give me a concrete example of what would be different when
strongstyping is set to true?
Patrick
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