Comments on: Wishlist for the ColdFusion Advisory Committee http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2009/04/17/coldfusion-advisory-committee-wishlist/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sean Corfield http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2009/04/17/coldfusion-advisory-committee-wishlist/comment-page-1/#comment-23664 Sean Corfield Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:49:04 +0000 http://coreygilmore.com/?p=909#comment-23664 You'll be pleased to know a number of these items are on the committee's plate and some have been approved for core language in CFML2009 so you can expect all the engines to implement them in due course! Specifically: - var declarations anywhere - core CFML2009 - optional args / default values in script functions - ternary operator ? : Overall, there's a big focus on specifying an enhanced CFSCRIPT that should allow components to be written entirely as script code. Some things you won't see: - zero-based arrays - it's too big a change (you wouldn't be able to use any existing frameworks as currently written if you enabled this - they'd all break: any loop from 1..arrayLen(a) in existing code would break). - ordered structs - that would have quite a performance overhead (and you could always use an appropriate Java collection if you really need ordering on struct-like collections). You'll be pleased to know a number of these items are on the committee's plate and some have been approved for core language in CFML2009 so you can expect all the engines to implement them in due course!

Specifically:

- var declarations anywhere – core CFML2009

- optional args / default values in script functions

- ternary operator ? :

Overall, there's a big focus on specifying an enhanced CFSCRIPT that should allow components to be written entirely as script code.

Some things you won't see:

- zero-based arrays – it's too big a change (you wouldn't be able to use any existing frameworks as currently written if you enabled this – they'd all break: any loop from 1..arrayLen(a) in existing code would break).

- ordered structs – that would have quite a performance overhead (and you could always use an appropriate Java collection if you really need ordering on struct-like collections).

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