I not understanding the time consts can be used even though the variable value is different across the program. I know it at least can have to do with the scope, it is defined but can get confused beyond that. From looking at a program it appears a scope, is a particular iteration of a loop. For ex…

temp exists in that scope only, and does not need to be reassigned or changed you can start declaring all variables with const, unless you need to declare them without a value, and change them to let if you find out that with const it disallow a thing you need to do

What is temp’s is scope. What I said was not with confidence.

temp exists only in the block {} it is declared, in fact if you do this: [image] you get an error as you would be trying to access it out of scope

The general advice for when to use const is that you should use const if you can - as long as you don’t need to reassign the variable, use const.

From a test I did I take for a loop the scope is all iterations of the loop. Please let me know if iteration is not a widely understood/ or even correct term and an alternative. Let me know if you don’t know what I mean by iteration and I will explain.

The scope cannot be across all iterations of the loop - each loop iteration has a different value for temp. Therefore, each loop iteration has it’s own scope.

I think I may have not explained myself well here. I could well have but want to be sure. To be clear I was refering to a circumstance like my test variable in the code below. const bubbleSort = (array) => { for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) { for (let j = 0; j < array.length - 1; j++) {…

[image] markcactus: for (let j = 0; j < array.length - 1; j++) { if(j>=1){ console.log(test) } if (array[j] > array[j + 1]) { const temp = array[j]; array[j] = array[j + 1]; array[j + 1] = temp; } const test=i+j; } Your var…

I take from your reply, iteration is a widely understood and suitable term.

Thankyou that makes it clear it was not how I explained it.

Understanding when const is used e.g. inside

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JeremyLT June 27, 2025, 4:41pm 11

Iteration is a common term. I’m not sure if you and I mean the same thing by it though.

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