At 09:46 AM 11/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Just as a sidenote, some of us were trained in languages where integers are >often used in the place of booleans. > >For example, my first computer science class in college was taught in a >language called Scheme (a variant of LISP) which IIRC had no typed boolean. >So we all learned that "not false is true enough" meaning that for a given >variable type, there was one and only one defined value that was false, and >anything else was true.
I've never heard that "not false is true enough." ColdFusion is definitely a case where this is accurate. I took an artificial intelligence class back in the day, which used LISP. The teacher was a very smart person with very impressive credentials. But she was a very bad teacher. I can't imagine a LISP variant being very useful in the real world. All that has nothing to do with CF, though. -- Jeffry Houser | mailto:jeff@;farcryfly.com DotComIt, Putting you on the web AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- My CFMX Book: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072225564/instantcoldfu-20> My Books: http://www.instantcoldfusion.com My Band: http://www.farcryfly.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
