var tru\u0065; => "Expected identifier" error in IE9. console.log(fals\u0065) => "Syntax error" in IE9.
Can test IE10 when I get home from work. ________________________________________ From: es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org [es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org] on behalf of Brendan Eich [bren...@mozilla.org] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 13:38 To: Allen Wirfs-Brock Cc: es-discuss Steen Subject: Re: Fun impossible Firefox JS challenge Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > 1) Understand the actual browser interop situation. For example, do > all major browsers accept: > var tru\u0065; SpiderMonkey shell: js> var tru\u0065; typein:1: SyntaxError: missing variable name: typein:1: var tru\u0065; typein:1: ....^ It looks like Carakan (Opera), JSC and V8 allow this. I can't test IE. > 2) Within the constraints of 1) decide what we actually want to > specify. Do we want > console.log(fals\u0065) > to print "false" or "undefined"? Carakan, JSC and V8 alert "undefined". Anyone have IE results? Looks like SpiderMonkey implemented ES5 not ES3, probably accidentally and ahead of time. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
