There is a reason for the insanity you are complaining about. The vars are effec...

mudetroit on Feb 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon

There is a reason for the insanity you are complaining about. The vars are effectively hoisted there by the interpreter anyway, by pulling them to the top of the block you remove a possible point of confusion, and more importantly a possible point of bugs.