RE: Musings on Attributes (was Best Practices...)

[Roger B.]

> 1.  If you use that statement in a custom tag PRIOR to using any genuine
> attributes that were passed, you will destroy your ability to address the
> genuine atttributes scope, and thus lose any attributes that were
> passed in.
>
> 2.  If you use that statement AFTER reading attributes that were
> passed, you
> still don't get a unified structure of genuine attributes and
> other stuff you
> add to the new structure called "attributes".

Jeff,

But then there's:

3. If you do an IsDefined("attributes") prior to the StructNew(), you can
move everything into the attributes scope, you don't overwrite anything, and
you end up with a structure you can loop over.


--
Roger


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