/me sods off to take meds.
On 2/13/09, Marc Esher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think passing arrays by value in ColdFusion only truly makes sense >> to someone who's off their meds, > > > that was awesome, Peter. > > > > > > > but because it is the way things >> work, it will continue to be the way things work to avoid breaking >> legacy code. >> >> Best Wishes, >> Peter >> >> On Feb 13, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Dan Wilson wrote: >> >>> >>> Frankly Henry, the contents of the array matter. Coldfusion makes a >>> copy of all simple types and passes a reference of all complex types. >>> >>> If you have an array of objects or structs, coldfusion will make a new >>> array with a reference to the objects inside. Changing any of those >>> objects will be reflected in both arrays. However, simple types are >>> not passed by reference, so changing one of those would only be >>> reflected inside the source array that was mutated. >>> >>> Make sense? >>> >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/13/09, Henry <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Anyone knows what's the reason behind passing array by value, not by >>>> reference, in CF? >>>> >>>> I totally forgot about it today and it cost me valuable time... >>>> >>>> >>>> Henry Ho >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the >>> edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew." >>> >>> Guillaume Apollinaire quotes >>> >>> > >> >> >> > >> > > > > -- "Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew." Guillaume Apollinaire quotes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
