On 11/07/2013, at 21:02, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
>
>
> let foo = "bar";
>
> Yields:
>
> function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { let foo =
> "bar";
> ^^^
> SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
> at Module._compile (module.js:437:25)
> at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
> at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
> at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
> at Module.runMain (module.js:492:10)
> at process.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback
> (node.js:244:9)
>
> What am I missing here?
1.- `let` isn't JavaScript (yet), that's why it throws a SyntaxError.
2.- `let` -unlike `var`- gives you block scope -instead of function scope- in
the engines that have it: spidermonkey and perhaps (?) v8 with some runtime
flag.
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