early reporting of malformed regex literals

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

In your comments on the June 11, ES3.1 draft you said:


p22 7.8.  Unacceptable change: The requirement to signal regular

expression syntax errors at scanning time breaks existing programs.

(The justification ("since the arguments are the same every tine[sic],

..." appears to have no bearing on that and should be removed in any

case.)

If the existing browser implementations don't do this, would you agree it would be better to simply eliminate the scanning time option?

Presumably, it would be acceptable to require early report in an opt-in "strict mode"
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