I agree that this should be a static error. On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Waldemar Horwat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Es3.x-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es3.x-discuss >
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