On Tuesday 10 Jul 2007, Dale Fraser wrote: (now the poll has closed, I want to comment on your questions) > 1. Do you consider ColdFusion to be Object Oriented?
It has createObject(), which can make things with properties and methods - therefore it has objects, therefore it's OO. I'd love to talk to people who said no. > 2. What percentage do you think ColdFusion achieves the ability to code OO > style. See 1. > 3. Would you like the Adobe ColdFusion team to further develop ColdFusion > OO features? A no brainer 'yes' as the question is just 'do you want ColdFusion to have more features'. It does not say 'at the expense of non-OO features (like cfprint)', which would be far less likely to get a positive response. > 4. What is the number one feature missing from ColdFusion from an OO point > of view? > None / Pass: 52% > Overloading: 16% > Constructors: 10% CF already has overloading (don't give cfargument a type parameter, or leave out cfargument all together) - so I'd love to hear from people who plumbed for that one :-) I went for Constructors myself, as all we've got is a sort of half-baked almost by accident convention. > Overriding: 4% > Interfaces: 4% > Serialization: 2% CF has these already, see overloading above. > Multiple Inheritance: 2% You do not want this. It's the wrong solution to composition. > So ColdFusion is Object Oriented after all, I have always thought so and am > supported by the numbers, You're not supported- there is no proof you have a representative sample, and I'd argue the poll was open for way too short a window as well. Lies, damn lies and statistics, right ? :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to collaboratively seize 24/7 methodologies on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283362 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
