Is it bad practice to use the same variable name in multiple for-loops?

Question

I was just linting some JavaScript code using JSHint. In the code I have two for-loops both used like this:

for (var i = 0; i < somevalue; i++) { ... }
         


        

Answer 1

The best practice is to reduce the scope of variables, so the best way to declare iteration variable for the loops is

//for-loop 1
for (var i = 0; ...; i++) { ... }

//for-loop 2
for (var j = 0; ...; j++) { ... }

I know the scope of the variables declared with var but I am taking about code readability here.