RE: [coldbox:11245] Understanding Helpers and User Defined Functions

It is true.

What you describe is called impicit view helpers.
http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Layouts-Views.cfm#Implicit_View_Helpers

You can also get more reusable and manually include helper UDFs wherever you need them.

http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Layouts-Views.cfm#Helper_UDF%27s

Thanks!

~Brad