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And when do you ever want to leak local variables to an outer scope? Never.

Not to mention that loop counters are no different than other `var`iables in JS.



You do want to sometimes reference outer scope variables from inner scopes, though. The only difference between a leaked local and a properly referenced global is usage semantics.




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