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scope problem should be updated to ES2015

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
content

Research direction

Start by entering javascripting and selecting SCOPE, then review how the exercise currently presents global and local scope alongside the linked let and const references. Done means the exercise includes block scope, renames local scope to function scope, and reflects ES2015 usage.

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Description

discussion

The scope exercise defines scope in javascript before the ES2015 standard. Being 5 years later the ES2015 is probably the most used javascript now.

  1. enter javascripting
  2. select SCOPE
  3. you can see that only global and local scopes are referenced

Include block scope. Rename local scope to function scope.

Usage is defined at these two links from w3schools for let and const,

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