I've got structures doing all kinds of crazy things. Stuff.Things.MoreThings
definitely works for me. TO make the expressions easier you may want to use temporary
variables in the middle:
ThingStruct = StructNew();
ThingStruct = Stuff.Things;
... do something with ThingStruct.MoreThings...
At 11:22 AM 8/28/00 -0700, Gregory Harris wrote:
>Ok, my wish list now:
>
>1) How about a way to determine whether a dimension exists in an array, for instance
>this works:
>
>ArrayLen(ThisArray)
>
>But if ThisArray were a 2 dimensional array and I needed to figure out the length of
>something in dimension 2, using this
>
>ArrayLen(ThisArray[DimensionOne]) breaks the page
>
>Rather than having to go thru the excess overhead of trying to use a counter, maybe
>extending Arraylen could help this? Or how about a ArrayDimensionExists() function?
>
>2) Extending CFHTTP (I think this is a BIG one)
>
>3) Making Structures Multi-Dimensional, or is it possible to do structures like:
>
>Stuff.Things.MoreThings = ThisVariable
>
>This has never worked with me, the best I could do would be Stuff.Things
>
>I'm sure there are more headaches I've run into, but these are right off the top of
>my head. What else can everyone think of?
>
>Gregory Harris
>Los Angeles Information Technology Agency (ITA)
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/28 11:11 AM >>>
>>>> Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>I agree that the interfaces for SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. need a lot of work. As
>for other stuff, I'm kind of curious. What basic functionality would you
>like to see? I can't really think of all that much that I'd like to see
>added.
><<<
>
>Personally, I've got a laundry list. :) However, off the top of my head,
>in no particular order (I mentioned most of these at The Con last year, and
>will do so again if I go this year):
>
>1. Extend the CFX API to make it more useful. There are some things (like
>working with arrays, as Jeremy mentioned) that don't work or are hellishly
>hard to workaround. Some of us (very few, I know) *like* to work in C++ and
>*like* to optimize our stuff by putting it in machine code.
>
>2. Fix the encryption. It's really *really* broken.
>
>3. (or, in deference to or addition to #2) Support for "compiling"
>templates. We know that they already do this in memory (something akin to a
>p-code or bytecode type thing), but what I'd like to see is the ability to
>take that compiled chunk of memory and save it to a file. Python has this,
>as does Perl (in a limited sense). This would do two things for me: (a) It
>would mean that even though people could still "decompile" it, they'd still
>have to figure out var names, etc. (b) It would save the overhead of
>parsing the file every time.
>
>4. Better regular expression engine. (Especially non-greedy matching.)
>
>5. Better locking system. (This is a whine.) It's all fine and good to put
>the burden of the locking on the programmer (who has to go absolutely crazy
>on the CFLOCKs in a production system), but I'd really like to see something
>a bit better. I dunno how, but I know they have some pretty smart people
>who can surprise us.
>
>6. Binary data support for variables. (Unicode?) Right now I can't
>(reliably) mess around with binary files. :(
>
>7. Fix CFHTTP! Please! In the current implementation so much is broken
>it's not even funny!
>a. Not thread-safe (gah!)
>b. Can't use CFHTTPPARAM (and therefore cookies) without the POST method.
>(lame)
>c. Can't select encoding type (multipart/form-data doesn't work
>everywhere) - at least make it smart enough so that if no files are attached
>it doesn't use multipart! (exceedingly lame)
>d. The hack for port is *stupid*. If I want to access an arbitrary URL that
>could be on any port, I have to manually parse out the port number from the
>URL and put it in the PORT attribute and at the same time take it out of the
>URL string (it barfs otherwise!). (mired in a sweaty mass of lameness)
>
>8. Fix PreserveSingleQuotes() - Right now it doesn't act like a real
>function. I can't do other things in it. That is,
>PreserveSingleQuotes(ListChangeDelims(list,"','")) is broken. (This is my
>most common use for it.)
>
>9. Fix the standard structures (Form, Client, etc) to actually work like
>structures, so that I can enumerate them, delete from them, etc. Having to
>GetClientVariables() or get Form.FieldNames is just annoying (and doesn't
>let my code be nice and transparent.) Did they fix thix in 4.5? I think
>they are getting closer, but I think it is still broken?
>
>
>Hmmm ... I'm trying to think of all the things I constantly have to hack
>arround ...
>
>. Passing arrays (even scalars) by reference instead of value.
>
>. Accessing structure members in the order they were added, instead of
>having to hack around it with a parallel list/array. (However, I know how
>hashes work, so this probably wouldn't be worth it.)
>
>. ListSort(list[,type[,order]]) - Hacked around with arrays
>
>. ListEliminateDuplicates(list) - Hacked around with structures (and arrays
>if you need to preserve order)
>
>. ListSlice(list,start,length) && ArraySlice(array,start,length) - or,
>better yet, ListSlice(list,start,length,newlist), so that I can dynamically
>replace the middle of a list (newlist doesn't have to be as long as length,
>tho)
>
>. QuerySetRow(query,"valuelist"[,row]) or QuerySetRow(query,array[,row])
>(preferred)
>
>. QueryDeleteRow(query,row)
>
>. QuerySort(query,column[,type[,order]])
>
>. StructMerge(struct1,struct2) - Iterates over struct2 assigning its keys to
>struct1 (overwriting if necessary)
>
>
>I think that's it for now ... like I said, that's just off the top of my
>head. Anyone else?
>
>-Rick
>
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