Question

I have a Sublimelinter installed in Sublime Text 2 and it’s great. However it doesn’t like the following code:

if(condition){
    var result = 1;
}else{
    var result = 2;
}
process(result);

It says for var result = 2; that result is already defined and for process(result); that it’s used out of scope. Is it just mistaking the {} of the if statement for a more closed scope or should I really be doing it like this:

var result;
if(condition){
    result = 1;
}else{
    result = 2;
}
process(result);

Answer 1

No it is not “wrong”; it will get hoisted to the top of the nearest function definition, as per the ECMAScript specification.

Yes, your program “Sublimelinter” is incorrect to claim the variable is out of scope.