OpenBD gains "new x.y.z()" support

CFSCRIPT has been getting a lot of attention of late, bringing it more 'language' like, allowing you do more and more without needing to drop to tags. Ideal for business logic. OpenBD already supports many great enhancements to the CFSCRIPT notation, including many Javascript directives for declaring structures/arrays using the {key:[1,2,3,5],key2:{a:b}} syntax.

Another great addition has just made its way to the nightly build which is a more Java like way of creating your objects. Instead of using CreateObject(), you can now use the new Object() syntax, in much the same way you would declare objects in Java.

In addition to this, the unofficial/official constructor for CFC's, the init() function, is also called at object creation time, if found. Which incidentally means, that the init() function no longer needs to return back "this" which is the standard pattern in CFC creation at the moment. Naturally, you can still do that with no side effects.

An example of this new operator and the permutations can be seen here:

<!--- simple cfc path --->
<cfset obj = new test()>

<!--- full cfc path --->
<cfset obj = new full.path.to.test()>

<!--- cfc path as string --->
<cfset obj = new "test"()>

<!--- full cfc path as string --->
<cfset obj = new "full.path.to.test"()>

<!--- with arguments --->
<cfset t = new test( "foo", "bar" )>

<!--- with named arguments --->
<cfset t = new test( bar: "bar", foo: "foo")>

<!--- with args passed in as argumentcollection --->
<cfset args = { bar = 2, foo = 1 }>
<cfset t = new test( argumentcollection: args )>

All the usual path searching kicks in at this point (explicit support for import x; is coming soon).

You can start playing with this new syntax now, by downloading the nightly build.