Looking for a way to disable the optional semicolons feature.
Hi,
Is it possible to disable optional semicolons in CF2021? We run CF2016 in our live environment, but I develop on CF2021 in anticipation of upgrading, but I occasionally get caught out by missing semicolons, which work locally but obviously don’t when pushed to the live server.
Thanks,
Geoff
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Semicolons became optional in CF2018. What’s odd is that they are sometimes required to reduce ambiguity.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/writing-cfms-without-semicolons/
This issue occasionally happens to me, but I fear that disabling semicolons and then integrating modern third-party CFCs, UDFs & libraries in the future would not work. I’ve been using CommandBox & TestBox to spin up different CFML servers to test code written on CF2021 to ensure that it’s both backwards as well as cross-compatible with Lucee CFML.
CROSS-COMPATIBILITY NOTE: A feature to “require semicolons” was requested for Lucee back in 2015 and was rejected. More info at https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-369
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