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by nathan-wall 3546 days ago
Ok, thanks. I would call that a problem with not having block scope, not a problem with hoisting. Not trying to be pedantic; I was just confused about how hoisting could be such a problem. A language could have variable/function declarations hoisted to the top of block scope rather than the top of function scope.

And as I'm sure you know, JS now supports block scoped variables through `let` and `const`.