Seems to be 6 of one and 1/2 dozen of another... but if you initialise it properly in one place, and it saves you from doing the check in 2 or more places, you've come out ahead.
grant wrote: > @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] > <mailto:[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]> > > <mailto: [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
