Another weird little difference I discovered yesterday between version 8 and version 9 of ColdFusion.
Scenario, you have a component and declare a valid function in that CFC that steps on the name of a built-in ColdFusion function. In my case, it was “log,” which CF uses as a logarithm function. Code:
<cfcomponent> <cffunction name="log"> <cfargument name="anything"> </cffunction> </cfcomponent>
In version 8, this will throw an exception error. In version 9, it works fine.
This seems like a bug as you should, in theory, be able to name your component functions whatever you’d like as they’re always going to be referenced with the object and never directly like the built-in function will be. Obviously Adobe also thought it was a bug and has fixed this issue with version 9.
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