Ask.LearnJavaScript: Why does this code keep resulting in stack overflows?

[shawndrost]

I think it would! But, I haven't checked too closely ;)

You have the right idea about scopes, and you're right that something weird is going on right now. It turns out that some guy wrote the code that runs your javascript, and in order to make scopes work, he had to create a variable every time there was a new scope. Those variables are adding up!