ES5.1: 7.6.1 Reserved Words A reserved word is an IdentifierName that cannot be used as an Identifier.
7.6 Identifier Names and Identifiers Identifier Names are tokens that are interpreted according to the grammar given in the “Identifiers” section of chapter 5 of the Unicode standard, with some small modifications. An Identifier is an IdentifierName that is not a ReservedWord (see 7.6.1). The Unicode identifier grammar is based on both normative and informative character categories specified by the Unicode Standard. The characters in the specified categories in version 3.0 of the Unicode standard must be treated as in those categories by all conforming ECMAScript implementations. This standard specifies specific character additions: The dollar sign ($) and the underscore (_) are permitted anywhere in an IdentifierName. Unicode escape sequences are also permitted in an IdentifierName, where they contribute a single character to the IdentifierName, as computed by the CV of the UnicodeEscapeSequence (see 7.8.4). The \ preceding the UnicodeEscapeSequence does not contribute a character to the IdentifierName. A UnicodeEscapeSequence cannot be used to put a character into an IdentifierName that would otherwise be illegal. In other words, if a \ UnicodeEscapeSequence sequence were replaced by its UnicodeEscapeSequence's CV, the result must still be a valid IdentifierName that has the exact same sequence of characters as the original IdentifierName. All interpretations of identifiers within this specification are based upon their actual characters regardless of whether or not an escape sequence was used to contribute any particular characters. The red text would seems to say that \u0069f and if are the same reserved word. This may not match implementations but it is what the spec. says. ES3 didn't distinguish IdentifierName from Identifier but from a quick scan of the ES3 language I don't see that the spec. is any different in this regard. Also, given the pervasive substitution of Unicode escape sequences I don't see why they shouldn't be legal in reserved words. Allen On Jun 21, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Mike Samuel wrote: > 2011/6/20 Luke Hoban <[email protected]>: >> My read of the spec is that thi\u0073 is a ReservedWord and should not be >> allowed as an Identifer. So the following part of the examples quoted below >> should be an early error: >> >> var thi\u0073 = 42; >> >> The text in 7.6 seems to address this with: >> >> "All interpretations of identifiers within this specification are based upon >> their actual characters regardless of whether or not an escape sequence was >> used to contribute any particular characters." > > I don't think this means what you think it means. > > I think this means that the identifier foo is the same identifier as f\u006fo. > > But in > > if (false) > alert(1) > > "if" is not an identifier, whereas in > > \u0069f(false) > alert(1) > > \u0069f is an identifier which would be the same as the identifier > "if" if "if" could appear as an identifier unescaped. > > Since "this" is not an identifier but appears explicitly in the text, > that led me to assume that "thi\u0073" should behave differently from > "this". > > Every browser I have tested treats the identifier "i\u0066" distinctly > from the keyword "if". > Every browser I have tested treats the identifier "thi\u0073" > distinctly from the keyword "this" in at least some cases, but only FF > passes all the tests I've come up with. > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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