That's not what I see, in strict mode at least, which I assume most people
consider de facto by now!
>From V8:
SyntaxError: In strict mode code, functions can only be declared at top
level or immediately within another function.
Similar error from SpiderMonkey.
On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> wrote:
> They can, in fact, be scoped in a for loop.
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> I guess 'cause that cannot be scoped, let's say in a for loop ... but
> yeah, I think that's not the most needed thing in the language right now,
> yet another shortcut with double reserved words one after the other
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> Regards
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> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]
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> Why not use a function declaration instead?
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> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:37 PM Alexander Jones <[email protected]
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> Propose adding support for
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> let function foo() {};
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> which would have the equivalence of:
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> let foo = function foo() {};
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> The idea is to support the normal scoping of let, but without forcing you
> to repeat yourself when naming the function, whilst still having the
> function's name property be set.
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> This would trivially extend to const and var. Also, possibly class.
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> Thanks
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