>>The point is that query.recordcount is not a boolean May I recall that CF is a typeless language. There are no such things like boolean as such, nor integers nor reals actually. Since CFML is a kind of layer above HTML, everything is more or less stored and treated as strings first. Only at execution, depending on the type of expression and the type of arguments implied by the expression or statement, the correct value is interpreted from the argument. For instance : in <CFSET test = "yes">, is test a boolean? No, it's a string. in <CFIF test>, test must be treated as a boolean because of the CFIF statement, then anything like "yes", or any integer value != 0 will be translated to true.
By the way, constructs like if (variable) historically originated from the C language, (may be even before in Pascl or Algol), and even if C is a strongly typed language, implicit casting is used, and "if(variable)" is currently used, variable being a boolean or not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:254994 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
