Subj : Re: javascript:reply('37004') does not work
To   : Bob Clary
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Sat Mar 05 2005 07:51 am

Bob Clary wrote:
> 
> which contains a function named goto. goto is a reserved identifier and 
> can not be used as a function name. This error causes the rest of the 
> script to fail to compile. Change the function name from goto to 
> something else and it will work.


For web compatibility, I recently (after Firefox 1.0, 1.0.1, and any 
1.0.x release we might do later) changed the reserved-identifier error 
into a strict warning.  IE apparently allows function f(char){...}.  See 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240317.

So in Firefox 1.1 and other products based on the Mozilla 1.8 milestone 
(or later), Leon's page will work as it does in IE.

But this IE-induced slop does fly in the face of ECMA-262 Edition 3 
section 7.5.3.

/be

.