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----- Original Message ----- From: "Aidan Whitehall" {aidan.whitehall@netshopperuk.com> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 06:31 Subject: RE: [cold_fusion] Unusual Results, help

> > This has always been the behavior of CF. I can agree that it at first > > glances appears to be counter intuitive, but at the same > > time, any reference > > to queryname.fieldname outside the context of a <CFLOOP> or <CFOUTPUT> > > results in a reference to the value of the field in the first > > row of the > > query. The functionality is such that there is no "inheritance" of > > references. > > Well, I think you're at risk of sounding like an apologist for Allaire. > > There are a couple of things that I feel need "fixing" in ColdFusion, and > this is one of them (the other one that springs to mind is the inability to > optionally specify that empty list elements aren't ignored - really useful > if you are populating database tables from delimited lists). > > <CFOUTPUT QUERY="GetParents"> > > *Crappy CFSET GetParents.ParentID code required here* > > <CFOUTPUT QUERY="GetChildren"> > > #GetParents.ParentID# doesn't increment properly with each > iteration of the outer loop.... WHY NOT ALLAIRE?!?! > > </CFOUTPUT> > </CFOUTPUT> > > > > Since CF5 is feature complete and in RC testing, I would > > seriously doubt > > that a change in behavior is going to happen in this release, > > or for that > > matter even in NEO. > > Unfortunately, I think you might be right. > > "Hey, we've fixed a load of old bugs!" doesn't sound as good to new > customers as "Hey, there's a load of new features!". > > > > -- > Aidan Whitehall {aidan.whitehall@netshopperuk.com> > Netshopperuk > Telephone +44 (01744) 648650 > >