Then I'll stick to my original statement that there is nothing wrong with isDefined it's better than embedded structKeyExists.
Regards Dale Fraser <http://dalefraser.blogspot.com> http://dalefraser.blogspot.com From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of grant Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2007 11:02 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: isDefined() bad? @Dale: It throws. @Haikal: Good Point. It's that laziness again - setting up and maintaining defaults can be rather tiresome. On 05/06/07, Haikal Saadh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, I favour sane defaults rather than having to check for presence of variables all the time. And the bigger and more complicated your data structs get, I think having to check to see if a variable exists is a quick path to insanity. Side effect of eating too much spaghetti... grant wrote: > Wow thanks for the response people. My question is really out of pure > laziness - I have a huge struct that i need to check a key for - the > actual key path is > session.currentuser.currentreport.filters.currentfilter.filterset , > where filters, currentfilter and filterset may not be present. so it's > heaps easier to do a > isDefined(" session.currentuser.currentreport.filters.currentfilter.filterset") > than structKeyExists(session.currentuser.currentreport , "filters") > and structKeyExists(session.currentuser.currentreport.filters , > "currentfilter") and so on. > > or am i missing something? > > On 05/06/07, * Haikal Saadh* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Having seen more than my fair share of request scope abuse, I can see > why he would. > > I think easy access to request in CF can cause poor code. But then > again, guns don't kill people, people kill people, right? > > Peter Tilbrook wrote: > > I agree (disciplined) but he then bagged the "request" scope so > now I > > am not so sure. > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
