semantic-differences.md
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Semantic differences between original ES6 and transpiled ES3
Referenced (inside closure) before declaration
defs.js
detects the vast majority of cases where a variable is referenced prior to
its declaration. The one case it cannot detect is the following:
function printx() { console.log(x); }
printx(); // illegal
let x = 1;
printx(); // legal
The first call to printx
is not legal because x
hasn't been initialized at that point
of time, which is impossible to catch reliably with statical analysis.
v8 --harmony
will detect and error on this via run-time checking. defs.js
will
happily transpile this example (let
=> var
and that's it), and the transpiled code
will print undefined
on the first call to printx
. This difference should be a very
minor problem in practice.