Scope in Action Script – not what you might think

I have previously coded in Java which has very strict scope for variables and this states that if a variable say ‘i’ is declared within a for loop eg:

    for(int i = 0; i<length; i++)

i only has scope within the for loop. This is not the case in action script where i has scope within the parent of the for loop.

This stumped me a little bit when I got a few warnings but it could have some really odd effects if you don’t know about it.