~Brad

I meant "express" installation, which is the Railo/Jetty combined bundle. I've fixed the post.

On ColdFusion, array and struct literals are an extension to the assignment statement syntax. That is, they can only be used inside assignment statements (x = []). Contrast this with an expression such as "1 + 2″. The right side of an assignment statement is always an expression (except if it's an array/struct literal), so you can do this: <cfset x = 1 + 2 />. Similarly, CFRETURN takes an expression, so you can do this: <cfreturn 1 + 2 />. Method invocations, tag attributes, hashes in CFOUTPUT, CFIF/CFELSEIF, etc. all accept expressions. However, since ColdFusion doesn't implement struct and array literals as expressions, you can't use them in any of those places. Railo doesn't have that deficiency. Make sense?

Here's two examples of literal usage that leverage the expression-ness of the literals. They'll work on Railo, but not on ColdFusion:

<cfreturn {
query = myQuery,
result = myResult
} />

<cfif arrayLen([1, 2, 3]) EQ 3>
</cfif>

Thanks.

~Brad