tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035189260502660598.post4343230780869899993..comments2023-06-05T05:37:58.603-07:00Comments on easierbuntu: Introducing Environment VariablesMattBDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15070988462909190312noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035189260502660598.post-50189465410096526092009-05-30T09:27:23.191-07:002009-05-30T09:27:23.191-07:00You're right, William, and to be honest I should h...You're right, William, and to be honest I should have known better!<br />The only language I know to any great degree is Python, in which, like you say, a variable points to a value rather than containing it.MattBDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15070988462909190312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035189260502660598.post-38250674032626932232009-05-30T09:21:16.507-07:002009-05-30T09:21:16.507-07:00This is a slight quibble that you can ignore if yo...This is a slight quibble that you can ignore if you want.<br /><br />A variable is less a method than location. Better yet a variable represents the location where you are storing something.<br /><br />A method is a way. So cfset FirstName="George" is the coldfusion method for moving information into variables while FirstName="George" is a method used by any number of other languages like C.<br /><br />Variable names can be whatever you want them to be, but making them human readable can make your code easier to follow.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962649688635654073noreply@blogger.com