I don't think that's true about the hoisting mechanism. The javascript interpreter looks ahead to find all the var and functions and hoists them to the top of t

I don't think that's true about the hoisting mechanism. The javascript interpreter looks ahead to find all the var and functions and hoists them to the top of the function. I don't how know Java deals with forward-references, it was already considered passe before I even got into this stuff. Also, where did I write anything about global scope? I said it was good to rely on closures to keep from polluting your scopes, and that there was no need for with unnecessary function names. You're literally belittling me out on things I didn't even write. Am I upvote-target practice here or something?