title: Why does moving a var (that looks, acts, and smells like a const) to an external file not get retrieved?
body: <p>WebMatrix's report on my app said I had too much script in my (Default.cshtml) file. So I moved a bunch of functions over to an external .js file and added a reference to it in Default.cshtml. That worked fine. But then, I thought I'd add some big placeholder html over there, too, so that I could do this in Default.cshtml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#MusicContent').html(placeholderForGrammies);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...instead of this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var placeholderForGrammies = "&lt;div class=\"yearBanner\"&gt;2013&lt;/div&gt;&lt;section class=\"wrapper\" &gt;&lt;a id=\"A16\" class=\"floatLeft\" href=\"&lt;a href= . . . 10 gazillion bytes elided ...&lt;/section&gt;";
  $('#MusicContent').html(placeholderForGrammies);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...and thus skinny up my Default.cshtml file even more. But it doesn't work. Why does Default.cshtml see my functions in my .js file, but not my var?</p>