On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In ES3.1, this will mean that they normally require braces whenever a
> body can introduce variables. There are two classes of exceptions,
> shown by these examples:
>
> a) while (...) foo: var x = ...;
> b) while (...) for (var x = ...; ...; ...) {}
>
> I think these are bugs. a) can certainly be disallowed. There might
> possibly be existing code that is relying on b), confusing though it
> is, but it can be disallowed in strict mode at least.
ES3.1 will disallow #a because a LabelledStatement can only contain a
SubStatement. A variable declaration is a Statement but not a
SubStatement.
Your point about #b is interesting. I do not know if it has previously
been raised.
--
Cheers,
--MarkM
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