Comments on: ColdFusion 9 (AKA Centaur) to have impressive new features

By: Marcos Placona

Marcos Placona — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

@Russ Do you reckon Adobe hasn’t done it properly then? Why so?

Cheers

By: Russ

Russ — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Well at least Railo has done it properly.

By: Marcos Placona

Marcos Placona — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with you here Allen. It’d be much easier if during "compilation", the variables were set as private unless you specified. I’ve had some massive headaches tinkering with this issue, and could never really get to a feasible solution. Band-aids is really the right term on this case.

Cheers

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

LOCAL scope? How much longer will this issue continue with band aids. The problem with CF is that it defaults variables to the variables scope which is by it’s nature not private to the method it’s being used in (if it’s being used in a method). Instead of throwing yet another band aid at is in the form of yet another scope, LOCAL, why not do something to address the core issue and assume that variables set in a method are private unless otherwise specified?

By: Tom Chiverton

Tom Chiverton — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, given that we had the head of CF there, it’s a shame that even in the BoF session it was still ‘yes, we’ll think about adding that’ when it turns out they probably already had it sloted in. So what was the point of ‘what would you like in CF9′ again ?

I’d also like to hear something from the CFML language board about all these new features. And OpenBD, who aren’t on it.

By: Simon Whatley

Simon Whatley — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The comments coming out of CFUnited are very interesting. I’m sure Andy Allan and Kev McCabe would liked to have some of the Centaur comments announced at Scotch earlier this month.

However, conference politics aside, there was also mention of and and server events via a Server.cfc (as a supplement to the Application.cfc events).

The CF team like to called Centaur the "eagerly anticpated next release" … I certainly am eagerly anticipating it, although the CF9 developer exam is going to get even bigger as a consequence!