tracker issue : CF-3037453

Problem:

[b]Order of unscoped variable checking in 8[/b]

         Function local (UDFs and CFCs only)
         Thread local (inside threads only)
         Arguments
         Variables (local scope)
         Thread
         CGI
         Cffile
         URL
         Form
         Cookie
         Client

I would like to see the Application and Request scopes added to that list ( besides variables, those are the only two I feel like really even belong in the mechanism ). 

Because it's such a hassle to type out application. for every application-scoped reference, I commonly declare a shorthand at the top of a file and then reference it subsequently. I know this will enfuriate an explicit scoping purist or two, but I would MUCH MUCH rather be able to reference application variables directly or somehow flag application variables as scopelessly accessible. 

My application-scoped singletons tend to comprise the majority of the work of the majority of my applications, so being able to call singleton.method( ) ubiquitously instead of application.singleton.method( ) would be SOOOO VALUABLE.

[b]More importantly, I would like to be able to manage the order of this list both in the administrator AND on a per-application level. This would be a prime candidate for per-application customization, and would naturally fit into the per-application enhancements so far in 9.[/b]

*This would include the ability to add/remove scopes in the admin and would exclude any not defined in Application.cfc

<cfset this.unscopedEvaluationOrder = [ 'Variables', 'Application', 'Request' ] />

This would knock my socks off, not to mention provide performance gains.


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----------------------------- Additional Watson Details -----------------------------

Watson Bug ID:	3037453

External Customer Info:
External Company:  
External Customer Name: David McGuigan
External Customer Email: 5E0D54C04462BF5E992016B6
External Test Config: 02/06/2009

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