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Re:The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript by cheald on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:16AM (#3381165)
That makes plenty of sense to me; when do you ever want to leak a for loop counter to an outer scope?
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Re:The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript by satyr on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:30AM (#3381197)
And when do you ever want to leak local variables to an outer scope? Never.

Not to mention that loop counters are no different than other `var`iables in JS.

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Re:The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript by cheald on Thursday December 22, 2011 @02:15PM (#3382836)
You do want to sometimes reference outer scope variables from inner scopes, though. The only difference between a leaked local and a properly referenced global is usage semantics.
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