Chapter 7. CFML Enhancements

In every new version of ColdFusion you will find new tags and functions. What you don’t always find are dramatic enhancements to the syntax of the language itself. Being more low level, these changes are made less often and only after careful consideration and testing. In this chapter, we focus on what ColdFusion 10 adds to the language’s syntax. Our primary focus will be on closures (or inner functions). The remainder of the chapter then discusses smaller, but important, changes.

Working with Closures

ColdFusion 10 supports closures—but what exactly are closures and why are they a big deal for the language?

The term closures is frequently ...

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