On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 11:42 , Matthew Walker wrote:
> Interesting. I would do this for readability, not speed. To take a
> common example I would see
>
> <cfif myQuery.RecordCount>
>
> as more readable and immediately understandable than
>
> <cfif myQuery.RecordCount gt 0>

Ugh! :) I'd always write the latter (or <... eq 1> since I'm usually 
trying to get back just a single record in many of my queries!).

> I guess also I think of any non-zero value as
> boolean as I come from a CF background.

Probably. As I think I've said before on this list (I've said it several 
times on other lists!): the languages you know inform the way you program.
.

"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
-- Margaret Atwood

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