JavaScript scope（作用域）知识

lexical scope

1.1

I understand them through examples. 😃

First, lexical scope (also called static scope), in C-like syntax:

void fun()
{
    int x = 5;

    void fun2()
    {
        printf("%d", x);
    }
}

Every inner level can access its outer levels.

There is another way, called dynamic scope used by the first implementation of Lisp, again in a C-like syntax:

void fun()
{
    printf("%d", x);
}

void dummy1()
{
    int x = 5;
    fun();
}

void dummy2()
{
    int x = 10;
    fun();
}

Here fun can either access x in dummy1 or dummy2, or any x in any function that call fun with x declared in it.

dummy1();

will print 5,

dummy2();

will print 10.

The first one is called static because it can be deduced at compile-time, and the second is called dynamic because the outer scope is dynamic and depends on the chain call of the functions.

I find static scoping easier for the eye. Most languages went this way eventually, even Lisp (can do both, right?). Dynamic scoping is like passing references of all variables to the called function.

1.2

Lets try the shortest possible definition:

Lexical Scoping defines how variable names are resolved in nested functions: inner functions contain the scope of parent functions even if the parent function has returned.

That is all there is to it!

The last part: “even if the parent function has returned” is called Closure

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1047454/what-is-lexical-scope