The result is: **error**.

Try running it:

```js run
let x = 1;

function func() {
*!*
  console.log(x); // ReferenceError: Cannot access 'x' before initialization
*/!*
  let x = 2;
}

func();
```

In this example we can observe the peculiar difference between a "non-existing" and "uninitialized" variable.

As you may have read in the article [](info:closure), a variable starts in the "uninitialized" state from the moment when the execution enters a code block (or a function). And it stays uninitalized until the corresponding `let` statement.

In other words, a variable technically exists, but can't be used before `let`.

The code above demonstrates it.

```js
function func() {
*!*
  // the local variable x is known to the engine from the beginning of the function,
  // but "unitialized" (unusable) until let ("dead zone")
  // hence the error
*/!*

  console.log(x); // ReferenceError: Cannot access 'x' before initialization

  let x = 2;
}
```

This zone of temporary unusability of a variable (from the beginning of the code block till `let`) is sometimes called the "dead zone".