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It is not true - closures at block levels are possible. An example is let introduced in JavaScript 1.7 (see more here). From the documentation: "The let statement provides a way to associate values with variables within the scope of a block, without affecting the values of like-named variables outside the block.".

Tadeck
– Tadeck

2012-01-23 04:38:50 +00:00
Commented Jan 23, 2012 at 4:38
@Tadeck: I'm sure @Borealid is talking about JavaScript in the sense of the official ECMAScript standard. let is not part of that standard.

user1106925
– user1106925

2012-01-23 04:42:28 +00:00
Commented Jan 23, 2012 at 4:42
@amnotiam: correct. I'm sure at least one of the two different block-scoping constructs will make it into ECMAScript at some point, but that hasn't happened yet.

Borealid
– Borealid

2012-01-23 04:51:18 +00:00
Commented Jan 23, 2012 at 4:51

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