for-loops and declaration-like init expressions

[Claude Pache]

Le 5 juin 2014 à 16:58, Andreas Rossberg <rossberg at google.com> a écrit :

> 
> The one caveat is that for function, that would actually be a breaking
> change, but is it likely to be a real world one?
> 

Here is a plausible example:

	for (function(){ /* ... */ }(); ; )

Today, the initialisation of that for-loop is interpreted as an IIFE. If it has to be interpreted as a declaration, that becomes a syntax error.

—Claude