Re: "var" declarations shadowing properties from Window.prototype from Allen Wirfs-Brock on 2012-08-11 (public-script-coord@w3.org from July to September 2012)

From: Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:01:09 -0700
To: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org>
Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, public-script-coord@w3.org, es-discuss@mozilla.org
Message-Id: <054F12E9-4A11-413E-9959-B56DB07521F7@wirfs-brock.com>

On Aug 10, 2012, at 11:14 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> 
>> I don't think there is anything special about the global named undefined.  As long as it is a own property of the global object  (which is is spec'ed to be) 'var undefined' is fine because redundant var declarations don't do anything anything.  If undefined was inherited from window.prototype it would be a different story.
> 
> Agreed, just noting that const x = 42; var x; is not tolerated in ES6 as proposed (right?).

correct.

Received on Saturday, 11 August 2012 17:01:39 UTC