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Optional chaining, but for a variable?

For something like the following:

"use strict";
let a = 1;
console.log(eval(`
    a++; 
    let b=4;
`));
console.log(`a=${a}, b=${b}`);
// ReferenceError: b is not defined

Is it possible to do something where it prints undefined or something if the variable is not there instead of throwing an error? Something conceptually like:

console.log(`a=${a}, b=$?.{b}`)
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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The placeholder has to contain an expression and there doesn't seem to bean idiomatic way of using an undefined variable (likely due to parsing error) so I would go with a getter instead of using a raw variable.

For example before accessing b you can write

let getB = function () {
    return (typeof b !== "undefined")? b :undefined;
}

Then in the template literal you can write ${getB}.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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