And it doing the opposite would be a gotcha for anyone else. Is anyone able to explain why a language would have block scoping in the first place? Is it a good

And it doing the opposite would be a gotcha for anyone else. Is anyone able to explain why a language would have block scoping in the first place? Is it a good thing and I just don't know? I really hope its not because of the braces.. That would be kind of silly. As it is, without that explanation, all I can think is, so weird language x does something weird and then its a gotcha when a language (funnily enough javascript) does it in a non weird way? I'd say sounds more like a gotcha for language x, than anything else.