RE: new CFC stuff...

[Matthew Woodward]

Hi Isaac--looks like you have some nice additional CFC features added to the 
framework.  I was going to make some other comments but Sean beat me to it 
on your blog.  I knew that in Java the "extends" was a compile-time 
attribute and therefore couldn't be dynamic, so my suspicions that this was 
the case with CFMX are apparently true as well.  As we've discussed before I 
don't have the same issue with this as you do, but I understand your point 
about portability.  Unfortunately a solution probably isn't forthcoming.

The other comment Sean made is a little more important in my mind.  Use of 
the "this" scope has fallen out of favor with MX 6.1 because the data isn't 
protected from direct access, so the "variables" scope is now preferable.  
In this way you can force people to use the accessor methods as opposed to 
just calling the this scope.

Other than that, looks like the other stuff, particularly the get object 
function, is some nice additional functionality--I do "get object" type 
stuff a lot but just handle it on a case-by-case basis.  I think I mentioned 
that when I do CFC objects I have an init method that covers all object 
properties as well as accessors (getters & setters) for each individual 
piece of data; lots of code for larger objects but it makes them extremely 
flexible.

Matt

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From: S.Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: new CFC stuff...
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:38:36 -0600
Patrick will like this. :)

I just published some new CFC stuff in the latest build of the onTap
framework. Some info about the changes is on my blog at
http://www.turnkey.to/ontap/blog/?20040116

Patrick: I'd be interrested to know what you think of the CFC features
if you get a chance to download the core and have a look at them.
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