Question

I’m cleaning up a large website’s huge variables scope, normally when cleaning up these things I find the variables and var scope them.

Problem is; say I have a function declaration in a view(cfscript):

function myFunction(){
    //doStuff
}

myFunction is now available in the variables scope, it is however only used on this page so i want it in the local scope.

I’ve tried:

function local.myFunction(){
    //doStuff
}
//error!

var myFunction = "";
function myFunction(){
    //doStuff
}
//just creates a local string and a global function...

var function myFunction(){
    //doStuff
}
//no error but function is still not local...

the following however does work, it does feel kinda nasty though…

function myTMPFunction(){
    //doStuff
}
var myFunction = myTMPFunction;
structDelete(VARIABLES, "myTMPFunction");

is there no better, clean way?

Answer 1

Based on your comment to Sergii’s post,

its used recursive to generate HTML

I would say maybe you should refactor the function into a custom tag.

I generally avoid directly outputting anything from functions and use Custom Tags instead. When I use functions I return some value (or void).

Without more specific information on what the function does, though, it will be hard to give a more concrete answer than that.

However, while not the prettiest, I think your work-around solution would also work, if you’d rather not go through the effort to use a Custom Tag.

function myTMPFunction(){
    //doStuff
}
var myFunction = myTMPFunction;
structDelete(VARIABLES, "myTMPFunction");