> I'm just wondering if there's some set of variable assignments that actually behaves differently depending on which of these two presented patterns are used.

> I'm just wondering if there's some set of variable assignments that actually behaves differently depending on which of these two presented patterns are used. So I'll need to do some testing I think. You could be onto something, I'd love to hear if you come to any conclusions about that. Off the top of my head I can't actually think of anything since as far as I can tell, the only difference is that one `var` statement is used and in the other it's one for each variable - they are still declared in the same place. As for the code smell thing, that's a good point. I think after roughly the same amount of time using multiple vars would cause the same indication but it's probably more obvious with single var.