Parsing error: 'return' outside of function

Cannot disable one line /* eslint-disable-next-line */ or even the whole file at the top with /* eslint-disable */; both have no effect when the code contains a return outside of the function:

if (condition) {
    /* eslint-disable-next-line */
    return; // ESLint always errors here, can't avoid it
}

And it always bombs out with error Parsing error: 'return' outside of function.

I’m trying to add ESLint into a large test suit (jasmine) that’s been running successfully for years, and it uses the conditional return-s as shown above to stop certain test execution under special conditions.

I’ve been struggling to figure out how to make ESLint disregard that one line without success.

[mysticatea]

This is working as intended.

• globalReturn option cannot be used together with ES modules. Because both setting need special scope which is the child of the global scope.
• env: node includes globalReturn option, so you don’t need specifying the option manually.
• eslint-disable hides error reports from rules, but does not hide parsing errors of parsers.

[not-an-aardvark]

Closing because this is working as intended.