I'm not a ColdFusion programmer, but I was just thinking. It seems to me that ColdFusion has a big ego if they insist that all of their keywords start with CF.

Same with ASP.NET. Their tags start with <asp:

Hear Hear,I am a CF and ASP user myself, and I just noticed that.Good point.

Actually it could be a good practice in that it makes it a lot easier to make sure noone uses your keywords for something else.

Java has added some keywords in the last 2 releases which caused problems for users who had used those same words as identifiers in the past.

Of course it can also be annoying as hell

I agree with jwenting. In all my programs and scripts I give prefixes to all variables, constants, functions, etc. just to make sure that there is no funk with keywords and other predefined stuff. If C, PHP and the rest did this, we could USE those words to OUR choosing. Maybe not a big deal (and many might prefer no prefix to save typing), but I personally enjoy as much freedom as I can get. Am I making sense? Okay, well. I'm not into ColdFusion or ASP. I'm cool with PHP. Take care.

Alcides.

heh, with PHP.. you just never know what your function will be called ;-).

ASP.NET has standardization... *sigh*

well i never tried CF but i hope i will soon yeah i did look at some CF code once and everything had a prefix. what happened to the good old days of just crazy variable names and functions...

ROFL... that makes me chuckle... concieted programming languages...