Who said it was terribly inefficient? Sure, if your session scope contains 500 variables, it's probably a bad idea to always copy it, but I think that for _normal_ usage, doing a request.session = duplicate(session) (within a cflock of course ;) will not be harmful at all.
======================================================================= Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Everland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:23 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Session variable question > > > Ok let me ask this, I know it is terribly inefficient to copy > your session > variables to variables, or request scope if it is a complex > variable, but > what if it is something like sesison.firstname > session.lastname kind of > thing. Would this be inefficient or not? Just curious becuase > I usually > don't have complex variables and I don't know if this has > been explained > completely the difference between copying non complex and > complex variables. > > Robert Everland III > Dixon Ticonderoga > Web Developer Extraordinaire > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists

