and its sloppy, newbie code On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Dan Baughman <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dudes... stfu evaluate can be avoided. > (notice the period). > > . > > > thanks > > dan > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Gerald Guido <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Opps. I posted an old version of the cfc. The new(er) one is in >> cfscript.... >> damn... my bad... but the offer still holds to not use evaluate. >> >> G! >> >> Note to self.... must sleep. Sleep good. >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Gerald Guido <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> > >>> In general, evaluating strings as expressions is computationally >> > expensive. I can't think of any cases where I've had to use it in quite >> a >> > while, but I suspect there are some rare cases where you can't get what >> you >> > need any other way. >> > >> > >> > Personally I think that the anti-evaluate slant is a bit of orthodoxy >> that >> > was picked up on years ago (when it was much more computationally >> > expensive) and enforced as such by members of the CF community. >> > >> > Some times it cannot be avoided with out a boat load of thinking and >> trial >> > and error. Case in point, and I will gladly change this bit of code to >> not >> > use evaluate if someone can figure out how to do this in CFscript sans >> the >> > evaluate function: >> > >> > http://mgt.pastebin.com/f428de8f4 >> > >> > BTW I did some testing on the above code and the diff between using >> > evaluate and the code rendered to be evaluated and was a matter of >> couple of >> > milliseconds. >> > >> > G! >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> > I must have been thinking about setVariable(). Why "Should not be >> used >> >> if >> >> > not necessary"? What would be an example where it's necessary? >> >> >> >> In general, evaluating strings as expressions is computationally >> >> expensive. I can't think of any cases where I've had to use it in >> >> quite a while, but I suspect there are some rare cases where you can't >> >> get what you need any other way. >> >> >> >> That said, I wouldn't worry too much about it either way. >> >> >> >> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >> >> http://www.figleaf.com/ >> >> >> >> Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized >> >> instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, >> >> Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. >> >> Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more informatio >> >> >> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:320742 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
