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Use REPL and Global

Objectives

1. Use REPL
2. Access global
3. Use explicit vs. implicit declarations

Introduction

Scoping is about defining and accessing variables/objects/functions. Here's a small example which can illustrate how dangerous it can be to not understand scope: our program uses a variable named list and module A uses a variable named list. When we import module A, the original list of the program is lost!

Understanding global and scoping will give you a good foundation for future development.

In this lab, we're going to be using the Node REPL to create several bank accounts and users in different scopes.

Instructions

1. Enter Node REPL
2. Print the global object
3. Print the process object (global.process)
4. Create a global variable user explicitly with global.user = {admin: false}
5. Create a global variable implicitly with var account = {balance: 1000}
6. Open a new REPL and check for values of user and account (ReferenceError means the variable is undefined)
7. Go back to the first REPL and print user and account with global.user and global.account
8. Delete user with delete user (true) and print it again. You should get ReferenceError because you deleted user.
9. Delete account with delete account (false) and print it again ({balance: 1000})
10. Exit REPL
11. Contemplate on the fact that user and account reacted differently to the delete operator. Read the extra info if you forgot how delete works (it's JavaScript and not exclusive to Node).

Extra Info

To understand the discrepancy, you need to know how delete works and what was the difference between user and account in the ways they were created (explicit with global vs. implicit with var ).

• Delete operator

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