just a sanity check... If I'm looking to search in an array for an item and return the item, arrayFind doesn't do that. It returns the index of the item. So I would need arrayFind and array[i]. I could return the item itself with arrayReduce, but that would loop over the the whole array no matter what. it wouldn't short circuit when the item was found. Or I could just do a for loop Is that right, or is there a function that I'm missing that does what I'm after?

So I would need arrayFind and array[i].

And? Looks like you might be trying to find a solution to a problem you might... not have..?

Both of the below work. I just feel like this ought to be a one liner. but I guess not.

public Thing function getThing(required string key) {
		var foundIndex = getThings().find(thing => thing.getKey() == key);
		if( foundIndex > 0 ) {
			return getThings()[foundIndex];
		}
		return new Thing();
	}

	public Thing function getThing(required string key) {
		for( var thing in getThings() ) {
			if( thing.getKey() == key ) {
				return thing;
			}
		}
		return new Thing();
	}

mm. I forgot about

?:

That would shorten it up.

Took me a few (awful) goes to try it

I've mostly taken to not using it at all because of https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4212573, but in this case, it'll work fine.

Wow.

@Tim WTF, seriously.

3 days of my life trying to figure out wtf with that bug...

No kidding, props to you for that one. I don't see any confirmation from Adobe in the ticket. Wonky deluxe.