Subj : Re: javascript:reply('37004') does not work
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Leon
Date : Sat Mar 05 2005 04:30 pm

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:51:08 -0800, Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net> wrote:

> 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

So, if I understood correct, this problem is a temporal problem.

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