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+synopsis: "`--debugger` can now access bindings from `let` expressions"
+prs: 9918
+issues: 8827.
+---
+
+Breakpoints and errors in the bindings of a `let` expression can now access
+those bindings in the debugger. Previously, only the body of `let` expressions
+could access those bindings.