block scope + direct non-strict eval

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Andy Wingo <wingo at igalia.com> wrote:
> Hello ecmascriptians,
>
> I hear that TC39 wants to allow let and const into "classic mode".  This
> sounds like a bad idea to me, but, ok.

Instead, I would say that TC39 wants to eliminate the concept of "classic mode".

> If so, can someone say what these expressions would evaluate to, or the
> errors they would raise:

I don't think we've talked about the behavior of direct |eval| on
statements with |let|, but here's what I would hope we'd do:

>  (function (){eval("let x = 10"); return x;})()

ReferenceError

>  (function (){var x = 20; eval("let x = 10"); return x;})()
>  (function (){let x = 20; eval("let x = 10"); return x;})()
>  (function (){let x = 20; { eval("let x = 10"); return x;}})()
>  (function (){ { let x = 20; { eval("let x = 10"); return x;}}})()

20

>  (function (){let x = 20; eval("var x = 10"); return x;})()

10
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