Hoisting is applicable to variables as well.
Both variables and functions are put into memory during context creation ( or compile ) phase.
Variables declared with var keyword will get initialized with value undefined during context creation phase.
So you would not get error for first console.log(a)
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Hoisting is applicable to variables as well.
Both variables and functions are put into memory during context creation ( or compile ) phase.
Variables declared with var keyword will get initialized with value undefined during context creation phase.
So you would not get error for first console.log(a)