Bug 22663 – Property names not allowed in objects if they form part of js syntax

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: JavaScriptCore

[David Semeria]

I had a look around and couldn't find any references to this...

basically this is the problem:

var o    = new Obj();
o.if     = 'will make parser fall over';
o.then   = 'will make parser fall over';
o.and    = 'will make parser fall over';
o.switch = 'will make parser fall over';

o.unreserved_word = 'thats ok'

I don't know what the ECMA spec says, but I've got 50,000 lines of code in FF running fine with reserved words as property names.

Tks 

D.

[Gavin Barraclough]

We support this these days. (Our old behaviour certainly was correct, spec wise at least - I forget if this a non-spec feature we've adopted from FireFox, or if this was added in ES5).