TK
>I have a page that lists all the variables from all the scopes. In CF5, I
>had variable existence conditions, so that I would not output the cfcatch
>scope unless it was both defined and a structure. However, this block of
>code did not work under CFMX 6.1, so I poked around to find out why.
>
> From what I have determined, below are the variable scopes in CFMX 6.1 (I
>did not analyze var or dynamically named variables, like cfquery results).
>
>Session, Application, Server, Client, Cookie, Request, Variables, Form,
>URL, CGI, Attributes, cffile.
>
>Below are what look like variable scopes, but are actually embedded inside
>of the "variables" scope.
>Error, cferror, cfhttp, cfstoredproc, cfftp, caller, cfcatch
>
>It is interesting that cffile is not inside of the variables scope like the
>other tag variables. Every variable mentioned above is a structure, with
>the exception of cfcatch. When I dump cfcatch, it says "[unknown type],"
>which means it failed all the isXYZ functions. The way around this problem
>is just to output the specific cfcatch variables, but it is interesting
>that there is this mystery variable type.
>
>If anyone wants to contribute your own observations, feel free.
>Does anyone know how CF5 is different in regards to the above observations?
>
>Enjoy,
>Mike Chabot
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