On 8 Jun 2013, at 19:01, Yusuke SUZUKI <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > Seeing ECMA262 section 7.8.4, > > EscapeSequence :: > CharacterEscapeSequence > 0 [lookahead ∉ DecimalDigit] > HexEscapeSequence > UnicodeEscapeSequence > > Because of "[lookahead ∉ DecimalDigit]", strictly speaking, "\08" / "\09" is > ill formed StringLiteral. > But engines in the wild, V8, SpiderMonkey, JSC accepts this form and > recognize it as "\x008". > > To bridege the gap, I think it is better to introduce this form to the spec > officially. Agreed. Let’s loosen the restriction to octal digits only, to match reality. Filed a bug: https://bugs.ecmascript.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553 Also filed it here, in case it’s not accepted for ECMAScript: https://github.com/whatwg/javascript/issues/12 _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
