@agentK wrote:
You were going for pragmatic for a use case that promotes bad practice in the majority of cases.
There are a lot of "pragmatic" things a language could do, but the sum of those will inevitably lead to the mess CFML is right now.
Surely could do with an email attribute to email yourself dumps for debugging. Even though I have to do that sometimes because no CFML servers currently offer proper and working well way of breakpoint debugging, I'd say adding this to the language would be one of the worst things to do.
In those cases: use the appropriate separate tags/functions and if one doesn't want to type them: IDE snippet/template.