A Quick Understanding of ColdFusion Scope Variables
I stole this from the #cfml-general slack channel from @bdw492 and I'm keeping it here for reference.
One of the biggest trip up for Java people are CF scopes.
The this
scope is actually public members to an object.
variables
is private (but still shared for the whole object).
Then, inside functions, you have the arguments
scope and function local
scope.