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ES3 reserved words
See original GitHub issueThe issue: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/980
In the code used char as a variable name. The ESLint config contains ecmaVersion: 3, till this week here was used the default ESLint parser. char is a ES3 reserved word:
ESLint parsed it without any errors or warnings. However, this code might not work in some ES3 engines.
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Opened a PR: https://github.com/eslint/espree/pull/513
That’s what I was thinking, too.
Yes. Reserved words were completely illegal in ES3.