So I'm playing around with JavaScript and came across what I think to be an oddity. Is anyone able to explain the following? (i've included the alerted values as comments)

Why is the first alert(msg) inside foo() returning undefined and not outside?

var msg = 'outside';

function foo() {
  alert(msg); // undefined

  var msg = 'inside';
  alert(msg); // inside
}

foo();    
alert(msg); // outside

Considering these both work fine:

var msg = 'outside';

function foo() {
  alert(msg); // outside
}

alert(msg); // outside

and:

var msg = 'outside';

function foo() {
  var msg = 'inside';
  alert(msg); // inside
}

alert(msg); // outside
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