AS3 shortcomings

The lack of block-scoped variables in AS3 is really killing me.

for(var i:int = 0; i != 5; i++)

{

do_something(i);

}

for(var i:int = 0; i != 7; i++)

{

do_something_else(i);

}

throws a compiler warning for duplicated variables, but ALSO,

do_something(i);

var i:int = 4;

does not throw a compiler warning, since 'i' is defined in the function scope.  This can lead to unexpected behavior.

In porting from Java, one of the most irritating non-regular expressionable tasks is finding all the duplicate variable definitions and moving them to the beggining of the function, because AS3 doesn't respect block scoping.

AS3 is a huge step up from AS2, and there's a lot I like about it, but this omission is really glaring, and frankly amatuerish.