This reminds me of something that my boss and I argued about... I said that query recordsets and forms are structures, and he said that it's not the same kind of structure as a struct(), that the structure function is better because it's indexed and that the query and forms are not "real structures". Which is true?
>> There are generally two reasons for something like that: >> >> 1) The code is very old - we've still got code from CF 2.0 >> around and it's pretty damn nasty. ;^) A lot of the stuff >> we take for granted (structs, scopes as structs, even arrays) >> didn't exist in earlier versions of the language. > >In this case, I don't think that's an excuse, since CF has had >FORM.FIELDNAMES since CF 2.0, at least. That's what it was there for - to >let you get a list of the form fields so you could process them. Now, of >course, we have the Form scope exposed as a structure, which is nicer, but >the required functionality for generalized form handlers has been there all >the time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:207593 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
