Shit, sod, bugger

[kingandy]

There are two functions in Coldfusion for searching through a list: ListContains and ListFind.  Their operation is identical, but they differ in one small but fundamental way.

ListFind tells you if the list contains your word as an element.
ListContains tells you if any element in the list contains your word.

This has just cost me half a day's work.

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Comments

[richc.livejournal.com]

The fundamental existence if lists makes me want to poke whoever wrote the Coldfusion spec in the eye with a pointy stick.
Tha sort of thing above is just trying to be to clever by half, a better way to do that sort of thing is with a simple iterator and regexp, or even recursion if you're feeling like it.

[richc.livejournal.com]

Thats the language, not Andy, trying to be to clever by half.

[kingandy]

I figured.

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Recursion is overrated. There are some places where I've found it useful for example when I wrote a calculator program in my programming for Chemists class. However get it wrong and its an easy way to smash the stack or get something running of into infinity. Like I say Recurision is overrated. There are some places...

[richc.livejournal.com]

True, but there are places where it is the only choice (XSLT for example).