Non-local variable: Difference between revisions

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In JavaScript, the locality of a variable is determined by the closest <code>var</code> statement for this variable. In the following example, <code>x</code> is local to <code>outer</code> as it contains a <code> var x</code> statement, while <code>inner</code> doesn't. Therefore, x is non-local to <code>inner</code>:

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function outer() {