I also generate a fair amount of CFML (mostly data access CFCs), and I have routines that assemble my queries, and they do much the same thing: if no name for the query is required, it just leaves it as the empty string, rather than adding logic to remove the empty NAME attribute.

With large-scale generation, I do more static generation than dynamic generation, which means all the code I've already generated is developer-edited, not regenerated. The dynamic stuff is easy, just update the generator and regenerate.

This is a strange "bug". I had never even though of leaving the name attribute blank. I only came across that for the first time a few months ago. I like to use the query name attribute because I feel that it gives one more piece of documentation as to what is going on:

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I know this query is deleting join relationships to whatever main item I am viewing, and the name allows me to do this without even looking at the query content.

Just a personal preference.

Regardless, that is awesome that Adobe got right on top of it. Just another reason they rock :D