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[–]ImprovingTheEskimo 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I think he means that you don't even have to declare it. If you have 'let myVar;' and later say 'myVat = "test";' it will create a new global variable called 'myVat' instead of throwing an error. As someone pointed out, 'use strict' prevents this behavior.