<minor rant>
I’ve run across a trend in ColdFusion code that’s out there living in the wild web, to terminate “empty” tags with a />, like in XML. The best explaination I’ve heard for this behavior is to make ColdFusion code “well formed” XML. But what I don’t see, is how this explaination holds water.
Maybe an XML programmer out there can point out, how is this:
<cfset var foo=ListFirst(bar,”,”) & listGetAt(bar,4,”,”)>
any more proper syntax than:
<cfset var foo=ListFirst(bar,”,”) & listGetAt(bar,4,”,”) />
</minor rant>
