On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Fergus Cooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm also in favour of multiple, "redundant" vars. I use them semantically
> and as a discipline.
>
> if (something)
> {
> var x = 1;
> : : :
> }
> else
> {
> var x = 2;
> : : :
> }
>
> When I write the above pattern you won't see x being used outside those
> inner blocks. The two vars are my way of saying that they are independant
> 'x's, although the same name would be being used because they have the same
> meaning.
Okay, but this suggests that if you had 'let' you wouldn't use
redundant declarations.
Or, to put it another way, you only use redundant declarations because
the language lacks block scoping. I don't think this makes you a
champion of redundant declarations.
-Jon
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