> > What would happen, for example, if your program received a > > value for Form.myvar, and a different value for URL.myvar? > > In my apps, the form variable would "win" the spot in the > attributes scope. Not a problem.
Is this explicitly noted in the application architecture? If not, it's a problem, from my perspective. Good design explicitly notes such things, rather than relying on "default" behaviors, which may either be misunderstood by others reading your code, or which may lead someone reading your code to incorrectly infer that a different behavior may occur, or which don't explicitly describe what you intend to occur. For example, let's say you have the following expression: x = 5; y = 3; z = 2; final = x + y * z; Now, we can both read that, and because we know the order of evaluation, we'll be able to figure out that our final variable will be equal to 11, rather than 16, because the multiplication will be performed first. However, we can't be sure that the original author intended that behavior - we can only assume that the author knew the order of evaluation. So, from this perspective, the use of parentheses may improve the readability of the statement: final = x + (y * z); Now, looking at that, we can determine not only what it'll actually do, but what the author intended it to do. I admit that this is a trivial example, and am not saying that you should always use parentheses, but that code which is self-documenting is, all other things being equal, superior to code which isn't. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
