561816 - repl silently ignores function redefinitions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Virtual Machine, enhancement)

Description

[Felix S. Klock II [:pnkfelix, :fklock]]

The AVM repl silently ignores function redefinitions; it should either emit/signal a warning/error saying that the function has already been defined, or incorporate the redefinitions according to whatever top level semantics we happen to like.  (I'm a fan of just error'ing for now.)

I've written a simple example of such a redefinition below.  I'm suggesting that the second attempt to define "f" should cause a warning message to be printed.

avmplus interactive shell
Type '?' for help

> function f() { return 1 }
> f()
1
> function f() { return 2 }
> f()
1
> 

p.s. I'm not sure what Component avmshell is really part of; Tools?  Virtual Machine?  API seemed safe.

Comment 1

[Lars T Hansen]

NAB IMO but I'll let it stand for the moment.

Comment 2

[Felix S. Klock II [:pnkfelix, :fklock]]

(i did classify as "enhancement")