> The problem isn't that it can't be done -- the problem is > that people (programmers) expect it to be bulletproof for a > common situation which it's not... it could be...
I don't know why on earth you'd expect it to be "bulletproof for a common situation", as opposed to behaving like every other *Format function. I don't know why you'd expect it to do anything other than replace metacharacters, since in the common parlance of most programmers I know, that's what it means to make a string "safe" for a specific environment. Maybe you should change your expectations. > but there's some strange desire to not make it bulletproof > based on a fear of ambiguous problems that might arise from > fixing the specific problem that we know exists. Yes! I'm much more afraid of ambiguous problems that might be caused by a change, than I am by the ones I know how to easily solve. This is especially true for changes that go against the common idiom of a language, as this would. Maybe I'd be more interested if the current behavior was a serious problem, but it's not. How hard is it to deal with this one case? > It should just be bulletproof *if* we can make it so without > negative side effects, and it's been proven that we can. Just because you don't know that there are negative side effects, doesn't mean there aren't any. The word "proof" has a stricter meaning than that. In any case, since neither you nor I have access to the CF source code, I suggest you file a bug report/wishlist request/whatever and move on. Maybe you'll get what you want in CF9. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:295733 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
