How do you fix illegal shadowing in JavaScript?
Use let in the inner block instead of var. You cannot shadow a let, const, or class with a var in the same scope because var leaks out of blocks and would conflict. The reverse (shadowing a var with a let) is legal.
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TDZ access: using a let or const variable before its declaration line throws ReferenceError. This is intentional (to catch bugs), so the fix is to declare before use.
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