> One question: Do you find that CF's implementation of regular > expressions is good enough to make the most of 'Mastering > Regular Expressions', or do you use this elsewhere. I use > regular expressions extensively, but have sometimes found CF > to be lacking.
As a lot of people on this list may well know, I have found Regular Expressions to be poorly implemented in ColdFusion. This is mainly because the implementation is quite a lot different to other languages (Perl and Javascript to name 2) and it is beyond me as to why they had to do this - let's face it, there were javascript regular expressions before CF and they could have just used these implementations. However, CFMX has improved these (believe it or not), but still not enough imho. As far as mastering regular expressions goes, get it, or find a good website on regular expressions (oh and keep an eye on http://www.pjnetsolutions.com/regex which I will be updating sooner or later with more content). Regular Expressions are very confusing unless someone walks you through the basics and then you can go from there! > As for XML, does this mean that CF at last goes beyond the > primitive WDDX? Yes it does, although it's implementation isn't what I'd call really good. It's adequate, but it's not a difficult thing to create a Java XML Document object and use that. That's going to always be more preferable anyway imho. As far as I'm concerned, CF is still a tool for designers to move into web development and Java (and other languages like C#) are going to stay as the tool for those developers that need more powerful and faster apps. CF will never become "all things to all men" (also read women, geeks and Russ) as far as web development goes. Paul -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
