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John Barton (2014-01-30T15:59:28.000Z)
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:

> John Lenz wrote:
>
>> Generally, I've always thought of:
>>
>> "if (x) ..." as equivalent to "if (x) { ... }"
>>
>
> let and const (and class) are block-scoped. {...} in your "if (x) {...}"
> is a block. An unbraced consequent is not a block, and you can't have a
> "conditional let binding".
>
> The restriction avoids nonsense such as
>
> let x = 0; { if (y) let x = 42; alert(x); }
>
> What pray tell is going on here, in your model?


I'm with John: the alert should say 0 and I can't see why that is not
obvious.


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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-02-04T21:24:34.661Z)
I'm with John: the alert should say 0 and I can't see why that is not
obvious.
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