Development Considerations

The same development rules that apply for any programming environment apply to ColdFusion. You should also follow the same programming conventions that you would with any other language:

Comment your code as you go.
HTML comments use this syntax: 
CFML comments add an extra dash: 
ColdFusion removes CFML comments from the HTML that it sends to the browser, so users do not see them if they view the HTML source. ColdFusion does send HTML comments to the browser.
Filenames should be all one word, begin with a letter, and can contain only letters, numbers, and the underscore.
Filenames should not contain special characters.
Some operating systems are case-sensitive, so you should be consistent with your use of capital letters in filenames.

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