While the concept sound cool and you've got me intrigued. It seems like
a decent amount of complexity to save yourself from writing a couple
attributes.
I personally don't find myself reusing the same tag/fuse (throughout a
single Fuseaction) enough times that the added complexity would be worth
it.
Where do you see that fitting into real life?
Steve Nelson
Patrick McElhaney wrote:
>
> Encapsulation is just the beginning!
>
> You can't extend a custom tag like you can a class. You can't
> overload methods. You can't have polymorphism. There's a
> lot more too OO than simply making your applications modular.
>
> Also, custom tags are stateless, just like
> the web. You can't create an instance of a custom
> tag and do multiple things with the same data. (Well,
> theoretically you could:
> http://www.meta-magic.com/cgi-bin/fusewiki?StatefulCustomTag)
>
> Patrick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 12:13 PM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: RE: another nesting problem
> >
> >
> > Yw know, I think I side with Roger B. Basically, what -is- a
> > custom tag? If
> > it's not a CFX, it's nothing more than an encapsulated grouping
> > of standard
> > CF commands, arranged to do a specific function. If it -is- a
> > CFX, then it's
> > an encapsulation of C++/Java commands, arranged to do a specific function.
> > And how you arrange those modules is what makes an app.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Roger B. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 3:03 AM
> > > To: Fusebox
> > > Subject: RE: another nesting problem
> > >
> > > > Surely you cant think that the custom tag is an end all solution for
> > > code
> > > > reuse of complex functionality??
> > >
> > > Russ,
> > >
> > > More or less, yeah... if we're talking about ColdFusion. After all,
> > > CFObjects, Spectra, and many other CF-based frameworks are just
> > elaborate
> > > layers of custom taggery. And of course, Fusebox itself provides a
> > > wonderfully elegant mechanism for exposing the guts of entire
> > applications
> > > to the world via the good ol' custom tag.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Roger
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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