James wrote: >Uhm.. If..elseif..elseif..elseif..etc..else..endif and >CFMX has the same "problem".
And rest assured it is a problem that is not afflicted on every language. I posted a feature request for this functionality and some others to Macromedia and it didn't get anywhere. My impression was the speed of the tag would have been degraded in this environment if such a feature had been added. Shame because it is incredibly powerful. Lets say, for example, you have a chunk of code that has to branch in one of 50 directions, and those directions are variable depending on stuff that happened further up the pipe. Compare the exercution time of hobbling thru 50 elseifs versus one case statement where the only code that gets executed is the case you need at the moment. Or wouldn't it be nice to be able to code this: select case zipcode% case 93701:territory%=1 case is 93702 to 93750:territory%=2 case is 93751, 93752, 93754, 93755 to 94900:territory%=3 case > 94901:territory%=4 case else:territory%=5 end case Can you write this some other way? Yes. As elegantly? I had to translate an insurance company's entire rating system into CF and I sorely missed the ability to use variables and ranges in case statements. So would you if you had the opportunity to use them. I'd like to see something like this in CF still. Never mind the speed. Look at the functionality. ------------------------------------------- Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.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 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
