Tuesday 2 December 2014

(CFML) A quick survey about how you write your function signatures

G'day:
The subject kinda says it all. I'm just curious as to how people tend to code their function signatures, so I'm running a short survey.

Update:

The survey is closed: Survey Monkey will only allow me to gather 100 responses, which I've now got.


The main question is:

All things being equal, which of the following example function signatures would you tend to use most often?

(a) fully-qualified script syntax

public numeric function getValuesOverThreshold(required array data, numeric threshold=0){
    // implementation
}


(b) minimal script syntax

function getValuesOverThreshold(array, threshold=0){
    // implementation
}


(c) fully-qualified tag syntax

<cffunction name="getValuesOverThreshold" returntype="numeric" access="public" output="false">
    <cfargument name="data" type="array" required="true">
    <cfargument name="threshold" type="numeric" required="false" default="0">
    <!--- implementation --->
</cffunction>


(d) minimal tag syntax

<cffunction name="getValuesOverThreshold">
    <cfargument name="data">
    <cfargument name="threshold">
    <!--- implementation --->
</cffunction>

There's a coupla other framing questions, but that's the info I'm after. I'd be great if you could put your oar in.

Cheers.

--
Adam