435668 - "Function" constructor unexpected behavior

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 350268

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[antonglv]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 - Build ID: 2008040413

"Function" constructor doesn't report syntax errors in some cases, whereas regular "function" statement does.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Eval as regular js next code line
new Function ("}")
2. Eval as regular js next code line
function () {}}
3.
Actual Results:  
On first step "Function" constructor doesn't report error, whereas on second step js engine report "syntax error".

Expected Results:  
"Function" constructor should report "syntax error" on given string.

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Pretty sure this is fixed in Firefox 3, or at least it was last time I tried.

Comment 2

[Brian Crowder]

Yup, sure is.  From a nightly shell:

js> new Function("}") 
typein:2: SyntaxError: syntax error:
typein:2: }
typein:2: ^