On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Peter J. Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:

> In my opinion, this is a really shame that this
> wasn't the direction that was taken.  All the ImageXXX() functions
> polluted the root namespace of the language.  The same applied for all
> the SpreadsheetXXX() functions.  So I'm with Alan that it should have
> been things like img = ImageNew(); img.resize().  So I think Alan and I
> are in agreement here.
>

Just to add a little levity, a friend said to me on IM the other day:

"CFML: One namespace, 3000 functions. Let's party." :-)

Ah, but we all love it or we wouldn't be here! And we all love it enough to
constructively criticize it and strive to make it better.


> I think this confirms my assumption that ImageNew() is merely a datatype
> that needs data.  I vote for no change in behavior and no defaults set
> just for compatibility reasons.
>

So I wonder what the FarCry issue is then? Maybe we were off on the wrong
track.
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