"Prior to the Sixth Edition, the ECMAScript specification did not define the occurrence of a FunctionDeclaration as an element of a Block statement's StatementList."
The problem is not necessarily that FunctionDeclaration appears in a Block, that FunctionDeclatation appears in places in a program where a Statement is permitted but a FunctionDeclaration is not. ES5 mentioned it: "Several widely used implementations of ECMAScript are known to support the use of FunctionDeclaration as a Statement." I don't have a concrete proposal, but I wonder why specifying as ES6 does makes less sense to take the text that ES5 had in s 12 and attempt to codify, as ES6 does, except using Statement instead of StatementList. http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-12 https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-web-legacy-compatibility-for-block-level-function-declarations -- Garrett @xkit ChordCycles.com garretts.github.io _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
