774365 - Web Console setTimeout can't find declared functions by name

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

[Michael A. Smith]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

In Firefox's Web Console I declared a function and then tried to call it in multiple ways:
function foo() { console.log("test"); }

--
[13:47:37.139] function foo() { console.log("test"); }

[13:47:37.142] undefined
[13:47:39.786] foo()
[13:47:39.788] test @ Web Console:1
[13:47:39.791] undefined
--
[13:47:45.282] eval("foo()")
[13:47:45.284] test @ Web Console:1
[13:47:45.287] undefined
--
[13:47:51.746] setTimeout(foo,0)
[13:47:51.748] 5
[13:47:51.752] test @ Web Console:1
--
[13:47:58.226] setTimeout("foo()",0)
[13:47:58.228] 6
[13:47:58.232] foo is not defined @ Web Console:1


Actual results:

When called with a string first argument (eval syntax), the function was not defined by name in the context of setTimeout.


Expected results:

eval syntax for setTimeout should behave the same as eval itself.

Comment 1

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Thank you for the bug report. This will be fixed by bug 783499.

Comment 2

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Bug 783499 landed. This is now fixed.