Things to complain about! JS interop is far better than other languages with multiple implementations. Never mind complex APIs such as the DOM.
/be > On Jan 10, 2014, at 7:05 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I've learned it the hard way ... when in doubt, see what Firefox does ... > usually that's the meant standard behavior. > > I really wish JavaScript was a Test Driven developing programming language > ... the amount of fragmentation for every single little thing apparently > never tested against meant specs is often too damn high! > > Best Regards > > >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Benjamin (Inglor) Gruenbaum >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, this clarifies things. I'll update the answer on SO to reflect the >> findings. >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:54 AM, André Bargull <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Thanks for the reply. >>>> >>>> I'd actually expect `undefined` because function declarations does not >>>> return anything. Converting it to a function expression kind of misses the >>>> point since those are well... expressions :) >>>> >>>> I've tried looking in all the relevant places in the spec but still >>>> couldn't unambiguously figure out which browser is 'correct'. >>> >>> There are a few edge cases in reference resolution which are not correctly >>> implemented in most browsers. Your example is basically the same as test >>> case 2 from https://bugs.ecmascript.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751. The relevant >>> section in the specification is "12.13.4 Runtime Semantics: Evaluation": >>> The left hand side of an assignment is always evaluated before the right >>> hand side. This includes resolving and remembering the reference >>> information for an identifier reference. In this case the identifier >>> reference resolves to a binding on the global object, so assignment must be >>> performed on the global, even if a (direct) eval expression introduces new >>> bindings with the same name in the current scope. >>> >>> >>> - André > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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