Totally agree about isDefined.
It is one function that I wish was never created. The number of times it
has caused grief I have lost count of. Not the the function itself is wrong
it is just that it is badly used within alot of code.
Cheers,
Simon
On 08/12/06, Robin Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 08/12/2006, at 12:40 AM, Brett Payne-Rhodes wrote:
>
> > Can anyone supply a simple example of an 'acceptable' use of
> > evaluate()?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Brett
> > B)
>
> I've written a very simple (one cfc) unit testing framework that some
> of our clients have been beta testing over the last few months.
>
> One of the things that irked me about existing ColdFusion unit
> testing packages was that they had a profusion of assert() functions
> e.g. assertGreaterThan, assertLessThan etc - just like JUnit. The
> only reason to have so many assert functions was so that the correct
> message could be printed when the assert failed.
>
> My reckoning was that in a language with an evaluate() function we
> should be able to make a single assert that could print the entire
> expression that failed, and even better, print out the values of the
> individual elements of the expression being asserted, e.g. if assert
> ("a(b) or c[d]") failed we could print out the values of "a(b) or c
> [d]", "a(b)", "c[d]", "b" and "d" by breaking up the original string
> and calling evaluate for each one.
>
> So I use evaluate to make this assert function work. It's only used
> in a testing context. Otherwise (as anyone attending a CF course
> with me will attest) I avoid evaluate() and isDefined() wherever
> possible.
>
> Cheers,
> Robin
>
> PS: Mail me off list if you want to get a copy of the framework.
> I'm not going to generally release it until it's had a bit more testing.
>
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