Demonstrating that curly brace thing. The code below outputs: in component Hello calling code Hello If it was using closure, it would continue to say "in component". HTH

Junk.cfc

component {

	variables.where = "in component";

	{
		public function hello() {
			writeOutput(variables.where & "<br>");
			return "Hello<br>";
		}

	}
	
}

junk.cfm

<cfscript>
	junk = new Junk();

	writeOutput(junk.hello());
	writeOutput("<hr>");
	hello = junk.hello;

	where = "calling code";

	writeOutput(hello());

</cfscript>