Well, it's finally happened. ColdFusion's type coercion finally got me. I was checking to see if the last two characters equaled "-0" and the following evaluated true: if (right("Dan Marino",2) == '-0') {}

You're probably already aware, but you can use

compareNoCase()

to force a string comparison

Thanks Brad! Yeah, I just thought I'd share.

We've hit this a lot writing BoxLang. CF's penchant for treating dates as numbers has to be the worst. There's a few specific scenarios it makes a great deal of sense

now() + 7 // Next week

and a huge amount of places it really doesn't make sense

now().abs()

now().abs() == now() as long as now > epoch? (just trying to guess what this would actually do....)

heh, well

abs()

is simply a BIF which can be called as a member method on any numeric value

of course

And then, even worse, there can be collisions between member methods of different types.