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Why does this closure never work on Safari Mobile?

On every browser I've tested, with the exception of Safari Mobile, the following code works as expected: when a button is clicked, an alert is shown. However, on Safari Mobile, the closure doesn't appear to be "closing over" a variable defined in an if-block, and so the alert doesn't fire.

Can someone explain this?

const button = document.getElementById("clickme");

if (true) {
  // move this outside of the 'if' block and it works
  // on Safari Mobile
  let greeting = "hello world";
  function clicked() {
    alert(greeting);
  }
  button.onclick = clicked;
}

Demo: https://codepen.io/argmi/pen/poaKgYr

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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