Yes. See this article for an overview of all objects that can be accessed, and a small piece of demo code demonstrating the access per object using the JSTL.
A function cannot access outside variables without either including them or declaring them as global or getting them from globals. In the past I have created both an array and easy to read variables. I then reference the array variable and have to reach the variable by name.
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