249898 - "unterminated string literal" error because of newline in string

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[John Five]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040620 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040620 Firefox/0.8.0+

The following code causes the error to be detected by the JS debugger:

authors[18] = new Author( 8431, "", "", "By
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, VP - Software & Services", "2004-07-05 15:57:16",
"2004-07-05 15:57:16" );

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. in an inline script execute code similar to the above
2. you should get an error in the JS debugger which says "unterminated string
literal"

Actual Results:  
I get a JS error

Expected Results:  
This shouldn't happen, the JS engine should be able to parse the string
regardless of the newline character after the word "By"

Comment 1

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

See ECMA-262 Edition 3 7.8.4, in particular the "but not" clauses qualifying the
right parts of the lexical productions for the DoubleStringCharacter and
SingleStringCharacter non-terminals.

This has never worked in any Netscape or Mozilla implementation, and I don't
believe it works as the reporter wants in any other browser.

/be