AS3 - duplicate variable definition?

programming flash
1

If I have the following AS3 code inside of a class:

public function doStuff():void
{
   for (var i:uint = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
    {
       // do stuff
    }

   for (var i:uint = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
    {
       // do stuff
    }
}

I get a “Duplicate variable definition” compiler complaint. Obviously I could declare the i variable once within the function call to avoid the issue, but I shouldn’t have to. The first i should be out of scope before the second for loop begins. Any ideas?

Thanks,
~JC