Thursday, May 18, 2006, 8:44:38 AM, one spoke:
BN> My biggest problem with evaluate is not so much the method itself,
BN> but rather, that majority of the time that I see it, it reprsents
BN> a core misunderstanding of how the language can be leveraged. For
BN> instance, I see things like this A LOT!
BN> <cfset objValue = Evaluate("FORM." & strFieldName) />
Have you considered the possibility that the code you're looking at
was written before #form[strFieldName]# would actually run?
[How many hours/year do i spend working with code from 1998? Don't
ask.]
I think a lot of the Evaluate(evil) response comes from that same
time. The performance penalties were much greater in 4/5, and since
those versions were lots slower to begin with, people were looking for
every hack they could find to speed things up.
I don't have it around any more but Dinowitz did a paper with a bunch
of tests sometime around 2000; it may still be somewhere on the
houseoffusion or fusionauthority sites if you dig for it. (But again,
that's running CF-old.)
--
Jim Flannery
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