On SpiderMonkey, WebKit, and V8 and, I see
var bar = function foo(f) { if (f) {foo = f; foo();} else {print(33);} };
bar(function(){print(44);});
33
which is the behavior I would normally have expected for non-strict code.
The reason the assignment to foo correctly doesn't take is that a named
FunctionExpression brings its name into scope with CreateImmutableBinding
and InitializeImmutableBinding (See the 2nd FunctionExpression production
semantics at the top of chapter 13). For strict mode code I would expect the
failed assignment to fail with a thrown error, but I would normally not have
been surprised by the silent error for non-strict code. That is, until
rereading the following text from 10.2.1.1.3 SetMutableBinding(N,V,S):
[...] If the binding is an immutable binding, a
TypeError is always thrown. The S argument is ignored
because strict mode does not change the meaning of
setting bindings in declarative environment records.
Am I misunderstanding something, or 2) was this the intended spec, or 3) are
these three browsers all non-conformant in the same manner? If the 3rd, I'll
file bugs on this. If the 2nd, should we add a correction to the ES5 errata?
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Cheers,
--MarkM
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