Sorry about that. One of the problems with living in the Southern Hemisphere is that it is very difficult to follow and provide constructive input into a thread. I wake up to a vast proliferation of email every morning, but during my day the list is largely silent. I never really experience the threads as threads.
In this particular case I didn't think the thread had changed. I thought I was talking about whether the concept of using Compare() negated the existence of the issue regarding 33d. I was just woken up and was eating breakfast at the time, so I may have been mistaken, as often I am at that terrible hour. While best practices do change from company to company / version to version etc, I think it's reasonable to say there is a more or less established but unwritten set of best practice ideas circulating. My reasoning for that is that I hear the same ideas (e.g. use <cfif x> rather than <cfif x neq 0>) over and over. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 11:03 a.m. > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Best Practices (was: Re: 33 and 33d the same? > > > Could folks PLEASE change the subject line when the content > of a thread > changes sufficiently? > > On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 02:01 , Matthew Walker wrote: > > The problem with simply saying "It's a best practice: grow > up" is that > > that > > kind of philosophy is alienating for new CFers. > > And, more to the point, "best practices" change all the time. > And they > change from environment to environment: what's best practice here > (Macromedia, for a team of mostly Java/C++ developers using > CFMX) is not > necessarily going to work for you... (so, folks, stop sending > me emails > objecting to things in the published Coding Guidelines doc - > just take a > copy of it and edit it to suit your shop! *tongue-in-cheek*). > > >> Using Compare/CompareNoCase instead of IS/EQ was in our > company's Best > >> Practices document for quite some time. Mostly because in > version 4.x it > > was > >> significantly faster. > > Best Practice NEQ Performance Tip! > > Many 'high performance' constructs are definitely not 'best > practice' in > terms of maintainability... Another reason why "best > practice" varies so > much between shops... > > Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
