if I run this code in the tools > web developer > web console, I get a
result of undefined and no error
`if (false) { function x(){ console.log('worked') } } x();`On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > Brandon Benvie wrote: > >> My tests basically indicate what you said, but with a minor distinction. >> They don't fail outright, as in throw an error. They just fail silently. As >> in, it's ok to call the identifier, but it's not going to do anything. >> > > No, something else is wrong. Can you show such a (reduced, I take it) > testcase? > > > This is a curious Schrodinger's cat kind of intermediate state, where it >> doesn't succeed in doing what it was asked, but doesn't throw an error >> either, which in JS terms means it air-quotes succeeded but didn't really. >> > > SpiderMonkey's function-in-block does not create any such magic error-free > behavior. I don't know what you're seeing, but it's not what I saw at a > glance, and not what SpiderMonkey implements for f-i-b. > > /be >
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