[thelist] CF: Attributes to Locals?

Raymond Camden jedimaster at macromedia.com
Fri Sep 14 12:55:43 CDT 2001


> even if using that "scope" in certain instances meant that it 
> wasn't actually a true scope?  i think preaching the mantra 
> of "scope your variables" and then advocating the prefacing 
> of all variable names with 'attributes.' outside of a custom 
> tag where there is no attributes scope is highly 
> hypocritical.  this is especially hypocritical because by 
> doing so you're simply creating a longer variable name that 
> so happens to have a dot in the name to further the 
> confusion.  in essence, this is one of my bigger beefs with 
> the fusebox methodology and its supporters.

Defintely not arguing about it being bad to not properly create a struct
first... 

> i have no beef with using the attributes scope -- if you're 
> within a custom tag.

So again, just to make this clear - your issue is that the use of the
name Attributes is bad because CF uses that name inside custom tags?

-Ray





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