避免使用单语句版本(单var)的另一个原因是调试。如果在任何赋值行中抛出异常，堆栈跟踪只显示这一行。

如果使用逗号语法定义了10个变量，则无法直接知道哪个变量是罪魁祸首。

单个语句版本没有这种歧义。

这只是个人喜好的问题。这两种方式之间没有区别，只是如果去掉空白，第二种形式节省了一些字节。

除了可维护性，第一种方法消除了意外创建全局变量的可能性:

(function () {
var variable1 = "Hello, World!" // Semicolon is missed out accidentally
var variable2 = "Testing..."; // Still a local variable
var variable3 = 42;
}());

而第二种方式就不那么宽容了:

(function () {
var variable1 = "Hello, World!" // Comma is missed out accidentally
    variable2 = "Testing...", // Becomes a global variable
    variable3 = 42; // A global variable as well
}());

是一个很好的特性。没有理由逃避。随着技术的发展，我们也必须自我进化。这个特性在Perl等一些语言中已经存在很长时间了。例如构建WebGL网格，新的javascript样式

   //initialize vertices with some calculated points
   [verts[ix],     verts[iy],     verts[iz]]     = ps[0];
   [verts[ix + 3], verts[iy + 3], verts[iz + 3]] = ps[1];
   [verts[ix + 6], verts[iy + 6], verts[iz + 6]] = ps[2];
   //initializing normals with cross products
   [norms[ix],     norms[iy],     norms[iz]]     = cr;
   [norms[ix + 3], norms[iy + 3], norms[iz + 3]] = cr;
   [norms[ix + 6], norms[iy + 6], norms[iz + 6]] = cr;

事实上，老式的代码更难调试，到目前为止也更难理解和发现任何bug。这个样本过于简化了。大量重复的例程阻碍了真正的逻辑，使代码看起来像某种魔法。和上面一样，不过是古风:

      //initialize vertices with some calculated points
      verts[ix]     =  ps[0][0];
      verts[iy]     =  ps[0][1];
      verts[iz]     =  ps[0][2];
      verts[ix + 3] =  ps[1][0];
      verts[iy + 3] =  ps[1][1];
      verts[iz + 3] =  ps[1][2];
      verts[ix + 6] =  ps[2][0];
      verts[iy + 6] =  ps[2][1];
      verts[iz + 6] =  ps[2][2];
      //initializing normals with cross products
      norms[ix]     =  cr[0];
      norms[iy]     =  cr[1];
      norms[iz]     =  cr[2];
      norms[ix + 3] =  cr[0];
      norms[iy + 3] =  cr[1];
      norms[iz + 3] =  cr[2];
      norms[ix + 6] =  cr[0];
      norms[iy + 6] =  cr[1];
      norms[iz + 6] =  cr[2];

注意，在迁移新样式的代码时，我不仅大量删除了大块的例程代码。我很容易就发现了那些逃避了大量代码审查的不一致之处，这只是因为我让代码更容易可视化，更简洁，更面向逻辑，更不面向例程。

我相信在我们开始使用ES6之前，使用单一的var声明的方法既不好也不好(如果你有lints和'use strict'的话)。这真的是一种口味偏好。但现在我的情况变了。以下是我对多行声明的一些看法:

Now we have two new kinds of variables, and var became obsolete. It is good practice to use const everywhere until you really need let. So quite often your code will contain variable declarations with assignment in the middle of the code, and because of block scoping you quite often will move variables between blocks in case of small changes. I think that it is more convenient to do that with multiline declarations. ES6 syntax became more diverse, we got destructors, template strings, arrow functions and optional assignments. When you heavily use all those features with single variable declarations, it hurts readability.

可维护性问题可以很容易地通过一些格式化来解决，比如:

let
  my_var1 = 'foo',
  my_var2 = 'bar',
  my_var3 = 'baz'
;

我严格按照个人喜好使用这种格式。当然，对于单个声明，或者它只是把工作搞砸的情况，我跳过了这种格式。