I'm always quick to berate Adobe for poor communications, so - fair's fair - here's a "hey nice one!" at them - Rupesh in particular - for some feedback he's given on one of the tickets I had raised on the bug base.
Ages ago I found that there was no native way in CFML to determine if a variable is a file handle. EG: we've got
isStruct(), isArray() etc, but no isFile() or similar. I wrote an article about this: "How do I know if this variable is a file handle?" I also raised an enhancement request (3299625) to get it dealt with.Pleasingly it's been marked as "fixed", so in ColdFusion 11 we'll have isFileObject() (which I think is a better name than my suggested isFile()). The reason I know this detail of what the function will be is because Rupesh has taken the time to feed back on the ticket. This is cool. It might seem trivial, but this sort of community engagement is really good, and makes Adobe look far less faceless than they come across sometimes.
So cheers for the feedback Rupesh. And keep it up!
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Adam
