Brendan Eich wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Ingvar von Schoultz wrote:
>
>> Brendan Eich wrote:
>>> More helpful would be comments on the utility of let blocks
>>> (a.k.a. let statements) and let expressions.
>> While reading up on this, I noticed that you can declare the
>> same name with both let and var in the same scope:
>>
>> var x = 'global';
>> let x = 42;
>
> If these are both within an explicit block, the let will shadow the
> hoisted var.
This one is bizarre and infrequent enough that I wouldn't mind if we made this
into an error -- specifically, you can't write "var x" inside a block that
contains a "let x" if that var would hoist to or beyond that let's block.
Waldemar
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