Illustrates scoping of external variables in a Coldfusion Closure. If you create a variable in "local" scope outside of the closure function and wish to reference it from *inside*, you must leave the inside variable Unscoped in order to allow the engine to search through various scopes in order to find the external "local". The order the engine …

coldfution-closure-scope.cfm

local.people = {
    "jim": 100,
    "bob": 500,
    "sally": 1000
};

local.myStruct = {};

structEach(local.people, function(key, value) {
    writeDump(key); // name
    writeDump(value); // number

    // Important: myStruct must remain UNSCOPED here.
    // A reference to local.myStruct from inside this
    // function will fail with a error stating that
    // myStruct does not exist in local!
    
    structAppend(myStruct, { #key#: #value# });
});

// Contains all of the same data from local.people
writeDump(local.myStruct);