Good (humor) Sean...~! I agree there are bad practices... (evaluate,cflocation, variable prefixes, spaghetti code and some others) but i dont think you should include IIF in them...
Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean A Corfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: Re: iif usage > On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 09:33 , Joe Eugene wrote: > > I dont agree with Sean or Dave... > > That doesn't surprise me Joe :) > > > i dont think IIF is necessary but its > > a very useful function ... "IF USED PROPERLY" > > I didn't say it wasn't *useful* - I just said it was bad practice and > could always be avoided. > > > Many of you guys dont agree.. but i personally prefer using IIF and i > > use it only when necessary... a good example would be...table row colors. > > .. > > It is NEVER necessary. You even admit that above! > > > i dont use the above for complex logic...write cfscript blocks of code... > > i am not very fond of <cfif> contructs... > > But you can structure your code to be concise without iif(). Since you > want alternating colors, you should see that rownum mod 2 will give > alternating 1, 0, 1, 0 values. So you could construct a two-element array > containing the colors you want - do this above the loop over the table > rows - and then each row just accesses the appropriate element of the > array. > > The main benefit of this approach is that it keeps the color specification > separate from the row logic instead of being embedded in the table and it > also scales easily to alternately through more colors or alternating on > blocks of rows. > > And of course it doesn't use iif() which is a big plus in my book. > > If you want to use iif() instead of <cfif>, that's up to you. Just don't > ask me for a job (or a reference)... :) > > 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
