On 11/15/06, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Remove the pound signs around APPLICATION.getAllProds
> >
> > Ok duh.
>
> This is something that REALLY bothers me about ColdFusion. I love CF as
> much as the next guy, but I really wish they had made things more
> consistent. Sometimes if you are putting a variable name in a quoted
> attribute, you use ##, like cfdump (where it doesn't make any sense to
> require it, because the ONLY thing you're going to put in the var
> attribute of cfdump is a variable of some sort), but with cfoutput
> query="" you drop the ##. In my mind, the cfdump case is very similar
> to isDefined(""), but with isDefined you don't need ##. Makes no sense,
> IMO.
It's (relatively) consistent :)
use # signs when you need the variable evaluated.
isDefined('myVar') <-- you're not evaluating. just checking for existence.
<cfoutput query="foo"> <-- not evaluating at this point. pointing to
the variable. evaluating when you're outputting the column value from
the variable (e.g. #foo.columnName#).
<cfdump var="#foo#"> <-- don't really know :) cfdump is technically a
custom tag (at least it was at one point...it may not be in current
implementations of CF). if it's still implemented as a custom tag, it
does make sense that you're passing a variable value rather than a
literal string. <cfdump var="foo"> works, but the results are less
than exciting :)
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