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

Yeah it's not the best solution but what we use is something like this

function ReplaceNull(s)
    if IsNull(s) or s = "" then
        ReplaceNull = " "
    else
        ReplaceNull = s
    end if
end function