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I believe it should be because of lexical scoping or static scoping along with function scoping.<\/p>\n

lexical scoping says variable scope is dependent on when the function was created in your cases when function b<\/em> was created num was scoped to global.<\/p>\n

function b() {\n console.log(num)\/\/num is scoped to its parent function it was created in\n}\n\nfunction a() {\n  var num = 3;\/\/b will not have access to this num since it was not created here\n  arguments[0]();\n }\n num = 1;\n a(test)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
But if it were dynamic scoping then a variables scope is based on order of execution in which case num would have been scope to the caller a’s<\/em> num.<\/p>\n
if you try this snippet then it will correctly print 3.<\/p>\n
function a(cb) {\n  function b() {\n   console.log(num)\n  }\/\/b is created here so it has access to num\n var num = 3;\n b();\n}\nnum = 1;\na();\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
You can read about static scoping and dynamic scoping in this question where static vs dynamic, function vs block scope is explained better.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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