Here's what's going on:

YUI Compressor 2.3.5, 2008-02-08
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+ Added a warning when more than one 'var' statement is used in a single scope.
  Automatic coalescence is extremely complicated, and would be unsafe if not
  done properly.


At first I thought it was bogus, but it turns out it's correct.  Try
running this code and guess what the output is:

  for (var i=0; i< 10; i++) {
    document.write(i + " ");
    document.write(" ");
  }
  document.write("<br>result is " + i);

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
result is 10


Digging deeper I find that javascript's local scope is only local to
the function.  ... shudder ....


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:30:02PM -0800, Cassie wrote:
> When running the shindig server these days we are now getting tons and tons
> of js warnings. It seems to be linting for some very weird things, the most
> prevalent being "Try to use a single 'var' statement per scope."
> 
> Does anyone know how to turn off this particular warning? I don't think it
> is useful at all (using more than one var per scope in js is perfectly
> reasonable) and is hiding some of the hopefully more valuable warnings.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Cassie

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