Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Optional Parameters in cfscript functions

Ever get the The parameter [parameter] to function [function] is required but was not passed in?
Here's how to get around that:

function [function name]([param1]) {
       var [param2] = [default value];
       if (arraylen(arguments) gt 1)
              [param2] = arguments[2];
...
}

7 comments:

  1. There's a song by the Aquabats called "nerd alert". It's quite funny and you should give it a listen.

    Anyways, I was on jacob da jew's blog and found this:

    "Am I the only one who doesn't care about donuts, pizza, etc? Keep your donuts and bring me meat and beer!"

    I just wanted to let you know that it sent me into guffaws.

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  2. Listened to the song...you think it's funny?!
    You want funny, White and Nerdy

    So why didn't you comment there then. :-P

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  3. Forgot to mention - I hate ColdFusion for lack of obvious functionality and need to re-implement it all by yourself!

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  4. Like what? CF8 introduced use of regular operators for comparison and ++ in cfscript. CF9 supposedly allows total scripting.

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  5. Um, like this post? No optional arguments in cfscript? Remember? Implementing it 10 years after everyone else doesn't take away years of annoyance for those of us forced to use CF.

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  6. I've been using CF for close to 10 years and I like it. And with tags and functions added in CF8 and CF9 and the performance monitor in CF8, I like it even more.

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