Returning Structures from CFX Tags

As you probably already know, ColdFusion supports a feature referred to in the documentation as Smart Structs. The idea behind the Smart Structs feature is to make it easier to construct complex data structures in CFML code. Basically, if you use <cfset> or some other mechanism to create a variable, and the variable name contains dots or square brackets such that the new variable would be nested within a structure of structures, ColdFusion will automatically create any intermediary structures necessary to allow the <cfset> to execute without errors.

To illustrate, consider the following line: