cfml

On this page, which documents components
<https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/developing-applications/building-blocks-of-coldfusion-applications/building-and-using-coldfusion-components/creating-coldfusion-components.html|https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/developing-applications/building-blocks-of-coldfu[…]ing-coldfusion-components/creating-coldfusion-components.html>
it says the following
&gt; • You use the <https://wikidocs.adobe.com/wiki/display/coldfusionen/cffunction|cffunction> tag to define CFC methods. The CFScript function statement can create simple methods, but it does not provide options to control access to the method, provide metadata, specify a return type, or control generated output.
But that doesn't seem correct.  I do
```public String function( arg ) metadata="oh, yeah" outpout=false {
}```
all the time in script.

you don't need the `output` though do you - it's false by default in cfscript

<@U06UM62GN> Actually, that's not true :slightly_smiling_face:

The difference is that whitespace does not generate output in script

But
```echo('foo')```
will totally create output in script unless output is turned off

ah - yeah, OK, the end result is no whitespace unless you explicity output it.

Fair point though I was thinking of the result rather than the actual implimentation, but you are correct.

Now, it is generally worthless to specify since you'd have to go out of your way to explicitly create output in script, so it doesn't happen on accident like tags, unless I guess you had debugging output you wanted to turn off easily.

I only included it to show it's possible since Adobe's docs mentioned "_control generated output_"

although you did mention `outpout` :stuck_out_tongue:

I can't edit it now that the message is too old :eye_roll:

The many times I type `numberic` instead of `numeric`