using a query as an argument to a cffunction - coldfusion

Question

I would like to pass a query as a parameter to a function.
According to the docs You can specify query as an argument type.
However, when I try doing this:
<cfquery name="share_types_query" datasource="phonebook">
SELECT share_loan_type, share_loan_description
FROM shareloantypes
WHERE share_loan='S'
ORDER BY share_loan_type
</cfquery>
<cfscript>
phonebookQuery(share_types_query, "SHARE_TYPES");
</cfscript>
<!--function to take a query and turn the result into a JSON string-->
<cffunction name="phonebookQuery" access="public" returnType="void">
<cfargument name="query" type=query required="yes">
<cfargument name="jsVar" type=string required="yes">
<cfset json = "[ "/>
<cfloop query="query">
<cfset json = json & "{ "/>
<cfset i=1/>
<cfloop list="#arrayToList(query.getColumnList())#" index="col">
<cfset json = json & '"#col#"' & ": "/>
<cfset json = json & '"' & query[col][currentRow] & '"'/>
<cfif i lt ListLen(query.columnList)>
<cfset json = json & ", "/>
</cfif>
<cfset i= i+1/>
</cfloop>
<cfset json = json & " }"/>
<cfif currentRow lt recordCount>
<cfset json = json &","/>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfset json = json & " ]"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
<cfoutput>
var #toScript(json,Arguments.jsVar)#;
</cfoutput>
</script>
</cffunction>
I get the following error:
The parameter SELECT to function phonebookQuery is required but was not passed in.
I am very new to CF and I am on CF MX 7.

Answer 1

The version of the question that I posted wasn't actually a carbon copy of the function in the source file. The function in the source actually had some <cfargument> tags (the first one being name="select") that were commented out.
I was commenting them like this: <!-- a comment --> which triggered the appropriate response in my syntax highlighter, but ColdFusion was still trying to execute the lines.