ReferenceError: Cannot access variable before initialization

I tried this

// wing code
log("");

let body = "hello";
log(body);
if true {
  let body = "${body}world";
  log(body);
}
log(body);

Instead, this happened

--------------------------------- STACK TRACE ---------------------------------
evalmachine.<anonymous>:12
      const body = `${body}world`;
                   ^

ReferenceError: Cannot access 'body' before initialization
    at new $Root (evalmachine.<anonymous>:12:20)
    at new $App (evalmachine.<anonymous>:22:7)
    at evalmachine.<anonymous>:33:1

I expected this:

It should be a compile time error (surfaced by the language server during type checking). We need to implement a check validating that in any let-statement that declares a new variable X, X may not appear as a subexpression on its right hand side.

Is there a workaround?

Use a different variable name

Component

Compiler

Wing Version

0.13.25

Wing Console Version

No response

Node.js Version

18.14.1

Platform(s)

MacOS

Anything else?

No response

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