VBScript conditional short-circuiting workaround

Question

I have a large classic ASP app that I have to maintain, and I repeatedly find myself thwarted by the lack of short-circuit evaluation capability. E.g., VBScript won\'t let you

Answer 1

Or perhaps I got the wrong end of the question. Did you mean something like iIf() in VB? This works for me:

myField = returnIf(isNothing(rs("myField")), 0, rs("myField"))

where returnIf() is a function like so:

function returnIf(uExpression, uTrue, uFalse)
    if (uExpression = true) then returnIf = uTrue else returnIf = uFalse : end if
end function