Question

I feel stupid asking this question. But I have an annoying issue with variable scoping aaa below. Shouldn’t it output test at the end? But that wasn’t the case. What did I do wrong to use aaa within a function?

var casper = require('casper').create();

var aaa = 'test';
casper.start('http://google.com/', function() {
    this.echo("I'm in");
});

casper.run(function(aaa) {
  this.echo(aaa);
  this.exit();
});

Answer 1

When you echo out aaa, it uses the aaa as defined in the first parameter for your function. If your first parameter was called bbb or something, then you would see the output that you expect, as it would use the aaa defined in the outer closure.