And I'll chime in on Peter's side. I like boolean shortcut evaluation and consider it in the same class as well known shortcuts for things like autoincrement operator (i++). I can understand those that argue for explicit comparisons and there is certainly nothing wrong with it. But yeah, its just a stylistic thing, so each to their own.
Judah On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Peter Boughton <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I do it, and disagree with Barney on implicit conversion always being > evil. > > There are functions where implicit conversion shouldn't be used: > DateCompare(), Max(), etc - those ones should be compared against the > expected value. > > But when the boolean conversion is known and unambigious - Query.RecordCount, > Len(), ArrayLen(), find(), etc - it is perfectly acceptable to rely on it. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317672 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
