---
source: crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/spec_tests.rs
expression: JsVariableStatement.js
---
# Input
```jsx
function JsVariableStatement1() {
    return;
    var variable;
}

function JsVariableStatement2() {
    return;
    var variable = initializer();
}

function JsVariableStatement3() {
    return;
    let variable;
}

function JsVariableStatement4() {
    return;
    let variable = initializer();
}

function JsVariableStatement5() {
    return;
    const variable = initializer();
}

function JsVariableStatement6() {
    return;
    var variable1 = initializer(),
        variable2 = initializer();
}

```

# Diagnostics
```
JsVariableStatement.js:8:5 lint/correctness/noUnreachable ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! This code will never be reached ...
  
     6 │ function JsVariableStatement2() {
     7 │     return;
   > 8 │     var variable = initializer();
       │     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     9 │ }
    10 │ 
  
  i ... because this statement will return from the function beforehand
  
    6 │ function JsVariableStatement2() {
  > 7 │     return;
      │     ^^^^^^^
    8 │     var variable = initializer();
    9 │ }
  

```

```
JsVariableStatement.js:18:5 lint/correctness/noUnreachable ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! This code will never be reached ...
  
    16 │ function JsVariableStatement4() {
    17 │     return;
  > 18 │     let variable = initializer();
       │     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    19 │ }
    20 │ 
  
  i ... because this statement will return from the function beforehand
  
    16 │ function JsVariableStatement4() {
  > 17 │     return;
       │     ^^^^^^^
    18 │     let variable = initializer();
    19 │ }
  

```

```
JsVariableStatement.js:23:5 lint/correctness/noUnreachable ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! This code will never be reached ...
  
    21 │ function JsVariableStatement5() {
    22 │     return;
  > 23 │     const variable = initializer();
       │     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    24 │ }
    25 │ 
  
  i ... because this statement will return from the function beforehand
  
    21 │ function JsVariableStatement5() {
  > 22 │     return;
       │     ^^^^^^^
    23 │     const variable = initializer();
    24 │ }
  

```

```
JsVariableStatement.js:28:5 lint/correctness/noUnreachable ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! This code will never be reached ...
  
    26 │ function JsVariableStatement6() {
    27 │     return;
  > 28 │     var variable1 = initializer(),
       │     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  > 29 │         variable2 = initializer();
       │         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    30 │ }
    31 │ 
  
  i ... because this statement will return from the function beforehand
  
    26 │ function JsVariableStatement6() {
  > 27 │     return;
       │     ^^^^^^^
    28 │     var variable1 = initializer(),
    29 │         variable2 = initializer();
  

```