Jon Zeppieri wrote:
>> Why is the assignment operator relevant? The question is the binding
>> scope of i in
>>
>> for (let i = 0; i < N; i++) ...
>
>
> How is scope the issue? As far as I know, we don't disagree about scope.
>
> The assignment I'm referring to, in this example, is the 'i++' part.
> Mark is proposing that this does not mean "increment i by one," but
> rather "rebind i with the value of i+1" -- which is completely
> different and not what the user wrote.
Really? I'm having a hard time believing that.
I agree that a for-in loop should generate a new binding for each iteration,
but there is no sensible way to do it for a regular for(;;) loop unless we
introduce a new form of for-loop that has explicit rebinding expressions.
Waldemar
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