How to declare a variable inside if else brackets

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Basically if-else format like an below codes

  
    if (condition) {
      var foo = { bar: 'abcd' };
    }

However, JavaScript doesn't have scope blocking. I understand that foo will be null if the condition is not true. Later in the code if I do something like foo.bar I see that the bar cannot be read with an undefined error.

That being said, is it wrong to stick to the ES6 spec and do what I did?

Playground with examples

HTML


<span id="ntrue"></span>
<span id="nfalse"></span>

Javascript


// declare Mutable variable
let n = false;
// assign variable as true
if ((n = 2 > 1)) {
  // print
  document.getElementById("ntrue").textContent = String(n);
}
// assign variable as false
if (!(n = 2 > 4)) {
  // print
  document.getElementById("nfalse").textContent = String(n);
}

The result

N=(n = 2 > 1)

N=!(n = 2 > 4)

Example using RegExp

const regex = /(?:(?:(\d+):)?(?:(\d+):))?(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?/gm;

// Alternative syntax using RegExp constructor
// const regex = new RegExp('(?:(?:(\\d+):)?(?:(\\d+):))?(\\d+)(?:\\.(\\d+))?', 'gm')

const str = `1:1.1`;
let m;
// this loop running until regex.exec return null
while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null) {
    // This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
    if (m.index === regex.lastIndex) {
        regex.lastIndex++;
    }

    // The result can be accessed through the `m`-variable.
    m.forEach((match, groupIndex) => {
        console.log(`Found match, group ${groupIndex}: ${match}`);
    });
}

Example Images

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Conclusion

Defining or assigning and validating variable inside if-else scope is allowed, the example like above codes.