On 10/23/05, Hal Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree, Vince. I think exceptions should be for just that: exceptional
> conditions. A person not having a spouse, a library book not having a
> lendee, etc. are not exceptional conditions. Throwing an exception in such a
> non-exceptional case is, IMHO, pretty dubious.
Agreed, if the object not being present is expected then the code
should use a test for the presence of the object before requesting it.
Note that there actually are ways to use nulls in CFML but they're
just not very clean at the moment...
<cfset variables.foo = JavaCast("null","") />
<cfif not structKeyExists(variables,"foo")>
variables.foo is null
</cfif>
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