This is more for myself than anyone else, but I hit an odd snag in ColdFusion this morning. I got an error when trying to create a new structure member using a CreateUUID() function and ColdFusion's shorthand structure notation. The following code fails:

<cfset "foo"}="" =="" currentorder.cart[createuuid()]="{type">

The error I receive is that "Element 435A2A8C-0B35-C81F-4F36BE50E1B8F394 is undefined in a CFML structure referenced as part of an expression." Well duh! I'm trying to create it!

So I changed the code to this, which works perfectly:

<cfset currentorder.cart[myvar]='{type="foo"}'>

Does anyone have any idea why using the CreateUUID() function directly in the assignment statement would cause a problem?