> And hey, what if there is some warp hole, or what-have you, > and the only bit > of code to survive is that one line? How much info would > those 5 chars > give?
As we all know, there are NO programmers who inappropriately name variables. Seeing as how the variable is named RecordCount, it's hard for you to convince me that anyone looking at the code couldn't infer that the data type of that variable is anything other than numeric. If a wormhole did open and swallow up all code except for that one line, it wouldn't matter anyway, because the code itself wouldn't execute even if you have those extra golden 5 characters. Now, if I were to look at the code: <cfif query.RecordCount GT 0> Versus <cfif query.RecordCount> I might, just MIGHT, SAVE precious milliseconds of time making sure all beer didn't disappear into the wormhole. However, since beer is a higher priority than Boolean evaluation for me in the event of a wormhole catastrophe, I'd be forgoing code altogether, at least for a while. In that case, I'd be writing and then calling the UDF BeerExists() first and foremost. Of course, if I were a bad programmer I'd have named the UDF CheckForBeer(), and then after the next wormhole opened everyone would REALLY be up sh*t's creek, wouldn't they? Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:255117 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
