While your philosophical point of view is well stated...I think the point of
other tools and techniques like CFObject, et. al. is to introduce a method
of development for those less seasoned web developers who come from a
client/server based OO language environment.
I know when I started developing web applications. the first thing I missed
was the non-linear way of thinking. OO developers getting their first taste
of web development can easily adapt their mind-set if they have tools like
these to ease them into such a different way of doing things.
When you think about all the different levels of capability in the
development communities...is there really anything wrong with a little sand
paper to help smooth those edges? And these tools do address underlying
issues...just perhaps not the ones of which you are thinking.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Quarto-vonTivadar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 7:07 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: another nesting problem
> This seemed to be a pretty cool method because you create an
> object and then
> you can define methods (read fuseactions) of that object. So the
> query would
> be a method and then you could refer to that object and pass it
> that method
> and it would return the query object.
one solution, if you want to do some object programming, is to use a object
programming language. CF is not such a beast. I think it's a good idea to
keep in mind the old adage about "if all you've got's a hammer, then
everything looks like a nail". SmartObjects, CFObjects, etc and the like are
all very very interesting--but they beg the point: "why?" If you want to
write object orientated code then write in an object orientated language,
otherwise you're just forcing a square peg into a round hole--S.O. and
C.F.O. simply provide some sanding paper to smooth the square peg's edges,
they can't address the underlying issue of why the peg needed to be in that
particular hole in the first place
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