Correct. There are good places for incrementvalue and decrementvalue.
One example - a "next" link. Normally you may do:

<cfset nextPage = url.page + 1>
<a href="foo.cfm?page=#nextPage#">

But it's a bit simpler to do:

<a href="foo.cfm?page=#incrementValue(url.page)#">

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:31 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Increments 
> 
> 
> IncrementValue() is not depreciated, nor is DecrementValue(). 
>  The general 
> rule is that variable.a = variable.a + 1 is somewhat faster than 
> IncrementValue().  However, I think you'll be hard pressed to 
> find that 
> holds true in CFMX.  I think like Mike D's claim that IIF is 
> no faster or 
> slower in CFMX, you'll find the same for incrementValue().  A 
> lot of these 
> _old_ "DON'T DO THIS" needs to be revisited.
> 
> ~Todd
> 
> 
> Todd Rafferty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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