Dodging the evaluate function

Hi,
I have a data source that supplies the scope, name and value
of a variable. Obviously dynamic values is what CF is all about. A
dynamic variable name can be used (without the evaluate function)
by using:
#Form["product_" & i]#
But how do I use a dynamic scope, without using the evaluate
function? I have used:
evaluate('#scope#'& '.' & '#variableName#')
and this seems to work. Does anyone know how to do this
without using evaluate?
Thanks in advance.
Stephen

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.

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