Review request for JDK-8057980: let & const: remaining issues with lexical scoping

Hannes Wallnoefer hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com
Thu Nov 27 16:26:23 UTC 2014


Unfortunately changes in Parser.java did not apply cleanly to 8u-dev. 
Can you please review the webrev for 8u-dev?

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8057980/webrev-8u/

I also had to add a ForNode.setPerIterationScope method because of the 
lack of ParserContextNodes in 8u.

Thanks,
Hannes

Am 2014-11-27 um 16:20 schrieb Attila Szegedi:
> +1
>
> On Nov 27, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Please review JDK-8057980: let & const: remaining issues with lexical scoping:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8057980/
>>
>> Summary of changes:
>> - Throw error when let/const declaration is used in single-statement context as it is not a statement
>> - Implement per-iteration scope in for(let ; ;) loop
>> - Throw error for let/const in top-level switch statement. This should be supported, but we can't implement this correctly without a bigger rewrite of switch statement handling.
>> - Overwriting const binding from different script should throw type error also in non-strict mode.
>> - Removed unused flags: VarNode.IS_STATEMENT and ForNode.IS_FOR
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hannes



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