domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-02-18T04:41:05.309Z)
`eval()` hasn't yet been updated to work with the new lexical declaration forms, but I hope the example from above will be evaluated in a new block. See https://bugs.ecmascript.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1788 for a related bug report.
> On 30/01/2014, at 17:13, Brendan Eich wrote: > / > />/ > />/ Interesting! > />/ > />/ You don't want the alert to show undefined, so the extent of the inner binding in your model is the unbraced consequent of the "if". > />/ > />/ That is not "block scope" in any plain sense. > / > > How about this? > > let x= 0; > if (1) eval("let x= 42; alert(x);"); //Is this in its own block? > alert(x); `eval()` hasn't yet been updated to work with the new lexical declaration forms, but I hope the example from above will be evaluated in a new block. See https://bugs.ecmascript.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1788 for a related bug report. - André -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20140214/b0e62a16/attachment.html>