Friday afternoon scoping quiz
P T Withington
ptw at pobox.com
Sat Feb 6 06:49:33 PST 2010
On 2010-02-05, at 18:08, Dmitry A. Soshnikov wrote:
> Scope chain (test): [
> global,
> {foo: undefined, bar: undefined},
> {foo: 20, test: function () {...}}
> ]
This is the key that I was missing, as Brendan made clear. Despite `foo` and `bar` being declared inside the `with`, because declarations are hoisted, the `var foo` is shadowed by the `with (this)` when the assignment `foo = 42` is evaluated.
Thanks for the clarifying illustrations.
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