On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:39 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:

...

I was with you until you got to the following point

> 
> If there is an intervening "with" or sloppy direct eval, then there is not a 
> statically apparent assignment to a const variable. Since this can only occur 
> in sloppy code anyway, it seems more consistent with the rest of sloppy mode 
> for this failed assignment to be silent, rather than dynamically throwing an 
> error.
> 

const is a new kind of declaration unlike any declaration form that previous 
existed in ES, so Ii don't think its handling introduces any legacy consistency 
issues.  If somebody is using const, regard less of mode, they pretty clearly 
expect assignments to any const bindings to be illegal.  And, I don't think any 
body wants new silent failure errors, even in sloppy mode.  The most consistent 
thing is for runtime detected assignments to const bindings to always be noisy 
errors.  Early where possible, at runtime in the rest of the cases.

Allen

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