cfml and cfscript are part of the identity of ColdFusion, just as English and French are part or Canada's identity. Small chunks of cfscript for non output tasks are a bless for the eyes: straight, intuitive and clear.
For the same token, just because HTML means Hypertext Markup Language, should we constraint ourselves to use links? Names stick for historical reasons, nothing else. Alexander Lizano (CEO) Northern Freedom LLC On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Alan Williamson (aw2.0 cloud experts) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> But isn't that the way of many features? I believe CFML, at times, is its >> own worse enemy giving too much choice and allowing this code permutation to >> pollute and confuse. > > Part of the problem is that cfscript was always a second class > citizen. It wasn't capable enough to be useful. Finally Adobe decided > to overhaul it and the CFML Advisory Committee were mostly(!) > unanimous that cfscript should become a full, usable server-side > language. Yes, it's a stylistic preference but for a lot of people it > finally makes "CFML" into a real language - so don't underplay it :) > > Having to still have tags in an otherwise all-script file is a wart. > The language should never have allowed tags and script to be mixed > IMO. Files should be all tags or all script. CFML is really _two_ > languages now, not one... > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ > > "Perfection is the enemy of the good." > -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) > > -- > official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
