Javascript closures - variable scope question

Question

I\'m reading the Mozilla developer\'s site on closures, and I noticed in their example for common mistakes, they had this code:

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Answer 1

New scopes are only created in function blocks (and with, but don't use that). Loops like for don't create new scopes.

So even if you declared the variable outside the loop, you would run into the exact same problem.