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Octal escape sequences should be a lexical/syntactic error in strict mode and ES5

See original GitHub issue

The following code should be disallowed in strict mode and ES5:

"\5";
"\05";
"\55";
"\055";

This is disallowed by Annex B.1.2 of the EcmaScript 5 spec.

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Created 9 years ago
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Comments:21 (10 by maintainers)

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ortacommented, Aug 25, 2021

Yeah, just give it a shot and see how it goes 👍🏻

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reez12gcommented, Sep 4, 2021

@orta https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/396#issuecomment-910158675 If you could confirm this, it would be greatly appreciated!

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