Question

I’ve been using CFScript for a while now, and I love it. One of the things I come across frequently is inconsistent casing of function names:

foo = new Query();
foo = new query();
foo.setSQL();
foo.SetSql();
ArrayAppend();
arrayAppend();
if();
If();

How do you stay consistent? Do use different casing for UDFs as opposed to built in functions? What is considered best practice?

Answer 1

All the Adobe examples use UpperCamelCase (but they can be inconsistent!) but we’ve adopted a standard that mirrors the Java standard when it comes to case of variables, functions and CFC (class) names – examples:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.html

and

http://geosoft.no/development/javastyle.html#Naming Conventions

We find it works well and it means using lowerCamelCase names for functions.

Everyone will have a different take on this, but the important thing is to pick a standard and be consistent.