What languages besides Javascript have the concept of variable hoisting?

Question

... where variable declarations are moved to the top of the current execution context?

Answer 1

I can't verify these claims, but I found the following:

https://developer.rhino3d.com/guides/rhinoscript/vbscript-variable-hoisting/

https://til.hashrocket.com/posts/c0c0dd4ef8-variable-hoisting-in-ruby

https://medium.com/@wolfapple/variable-hoisting-in-ruby-3156313daa01

http://stratus3d.com/blog/2015/03/07/variable-hoisting-in-golang/

I hope this helps! 😊

Answer 2

Variable hoisting is actually a very bad idea. In bigger code bases it is easy to get a collision, which you probably don't want and adds massive complexity.