How to unset a JavaScript variable?

Question

I have a global variable in JavaScript (actually a window property, but I don\'t think it matters) which was already populated by a previous script but I don\'t

Answer 1

In addition to what everyone had written, also note that delete returns boolean. It can tell you if the delete was successful or not.

Testing on Chrome, everything except let was deletable. when delete returned true it actually removed them:

implicit_global = 1;
window.explicit_global = 1;
function_set = function() {};
function function_dec() { };
var declared_variable = 1;
let let_variable = 1;

delete implicit_global; // true, tested on Chrome 52
delete window.explicit_global; // true, tested on Chrome 52
delete function_set; // true, tested on Chrome 52
delete function_dec; // true, tested on Chrome 52
delete declared_variable; // true, tested on Chrome 52
delete let_variable; // false, tested on Chrome 78