[egeozcan]

From Ryan Cavanaugh's comment[1]:

> (...) there's already the let keyword available for those who want saner scoping rules. We should definitely update the docs to use let everywhere, though.

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/5822#issuecom...

[tom-lord]

Yes, however that was 3 and a half months ago -- and as far as I can tell, there's been no movement towards doing so.

[RyanCavanaugh]

It's been fixed for a few months in the Handbook repo (https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Handbook/pull/119/fi...), but the new updated Handbook hasn't been pushed to the website yet.