Dodging the evaluate function

This is for a very particular application, that will be used for
testing, so a
lot of the concerns around evaluate are not so crucial. But thanks for the
reminder regarding the variables scope acting as a structure. This will
hopefully help others too.

Stephen

Just to add, the general consensus of those you know, there is not as
much downside to evaluate() in the MX versions of ColdFusion. In CF
previous to MX there was performance issues. But since MX,
evaluate("form.#i#") and form parse to basically the same java
bytecode. So the performance is very similar.

This is for a very particular application, that will be used for testing, so a lot of the concerns around evaluate are not so crucial. But thanks for the reminder regarding the variables scope acting as a structure. This will hopefully help others too.

Stephen

evaluate('#scope#'& '.' & '#variableName#')
and this seems to work. Does anyone know how to do this without using
evaluate?

If even you scope is dynamic then evaluate is probably your only option.
I just have never found a use for this much dynamic ability. With
normal varialbes, most don't realize that they are in the variables
scope and thus can be accessed as follows.

#variables["variableName"]