I must have misunderstood then.

> And does that mean that you would not build up other functions and 
> methodologies to do other things that weren't originally 
> intended ?  This, 
> in my opinion, is where the creativity lies in writing computer 
> applications.
> 
> Just asking the question.

Nope, that's not what it means, it just means, when you can something with
the functions you have access to you should use them, that's all I meant by
that.

> Nothing that I do is a "hack" it is all deliberately planned 
> out given the 
> abilities and restrictions of the environment in which I have 
> to produce 
> an outcome.  What others call a "Work Around" is simply 
> understanding the 
> limitations of the environment you are working with and 
> making do with 
> what you have got.

I'm not saying anything you do is a hack, I was referring to my own
experience, I know I used to work with quite some hacks here and there, and
they always came back to haunt me. Until I realized I should tackle these
things from a different perspective.

> The CFMX language is not really XML 
> compliant in it's use of tags and attributes.  You "work 
> around" these 
> limitations.

Yeah - "work around"....



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Show me and I will remember
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