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`let default` results in keyword `let` being reported as reserved

See original GitHub issue

The following code:

espree.parse('let default = true', { ecmaVersion: 6, sourceType: 'module' })

Results in the following error: SyntaxError: The keyword 'let' is reserved

Expected behaviour: I would have expected to see the default being reported as reserved keyword, not let.

When sourceType: 'script' or when I use const or var instead of let, the error seems to match my expectations by reporting the following: SyntaxError: Unexpected token default

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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robertrossmanncommented, May 1, 2017

Opened a new issue in Acorn repo: https://github.com/ternjs/acorn/issues/544 🎉

Feel free to close this unless you would like to keep track of this. Thanks!

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kaicataldocommented, Oct 24, 2018

Closing this as it looks like this was fixed upstream.

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