Said better then I could....
-george
>From: "Mike Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Fusebox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Why use url_files?
>Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:20:49 -0500
>
>I rather thought that case had already been made. If I have a "global"
>redirectors directory at the highest level in my home application, any
>circuit, no matter how deeply it might be buried, I can access those url_
>files to get to where I want to go. Say you have an ABOUT circuit which
>contains a GOALS display. Buried deep in several nested circuits, I have a
>link that goes back to this goals directory. If I want GOALS to be
>available in that fashion (rather than a top level navigation option that
>is
>ever present) then a top-level redirector can be access and BAM! I am
>there.
>
>Now, let's say that same GOALS link is propagated throughout my nested
>circuits (say it is important to this site that its goals are constantly
>being referenced/reiterated) and the ABOUT circuit that contains it moves
>from the root to a nested circuit off the root. If I was NOT using the
>url_
>reference, I would have to find all these link occurances and change
>them...or change one url_ file and be done with it.
>
>Doesn't that define reusability? Or at least, I would agree, portability?
>What I don't see is how this is a stylistic choice. I would like to here
>your argument for why you think it is...unless this diatribe changes that
>position.
>
>url_ files should not be considered a "must", but as was pointed out in
>another message, some people hate the idea of that one extra file out there
>that has tons of documentation and only a few lines of functional code. I
>know people like that too and would agree that if you have the cards
>stacked
>against you that you find a happy medium. I am of the philosophy that, in
>general, every fuseaction I have in my index.cfm has only one case
>statement
>and one line of code it issues. I do not usually have, for example, an
>act_, qry_, dsp_ then a conditional clause for a url_ redirection in one
>case statement.
>
>But as my CF guru says, "it's all good" and if it ain't broke, don't fix
>it.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Quarto-vonTivadar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 5:27 PM
>To: Fusebox
>Subject: Re: Why use url_files?
>
>
>
>
> > hmmm...finally someone who has repeated what I said only about 10 hours
>ago.
> > Resusability...remember that point?
> >
>
>
>but Mike, what you described was stylistic justification, not reusability.
>Can you provide an example where the reusability is supported by proof (ie
>an example) rather than by assertion?
>
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