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		wnevets on July 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide 2.2 seems completely arbitrary to me. If your functions are so big that you need block scope, you're doing it wrong IMO.

Void_ on July 3, 2015 [–]

How else would you use conditions or loops?

reagency on July 3, 2015 | | [–]

The style guide doesn't actually use block scope for if/loop.

Many items in the guide are...reasonable, but the explanations are gibberish or don't match the code.

wnevets on July 3, 2015 | | [–]

the same way you would in es5?

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