http://tech.saigonist.com/taxonomy/term/33/all en http://tech.saigonist.com/b/code/javascript-variable-scoping-compared-c <span class="submitted-by">December 2, 2015</span><div class="field_tags"><span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/javascript">javascript</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/scope">scope</a></span> </div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>For the most part, JavaScript looks like a C-like language in syntax. Lines end (optionally) with semicolons, conditional expressions are in parentheses (e.g. <code>if (a == 1)</code>), and blocks are surrounded by braces. But there are some huge differences in both syntax and behavior. JavaScript is weakly typed, and its object oriented programming is prototype-based, much different from C++/Java. And for someone who understands how memory for C variables is allocated, JavaScript has a number of surprises in its variables and variable scoping.</p> <ol><li>There's no block-level scoping,</li>...</ol></div></div></div> Wed, 02 Dec 2015 04:44:00 +0000 tomo 17 at http://tech.saigonist.com