56318 - function literals with names don't work right

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect, P3)

Description

[David Flanagan]

ECMA v3 (section 13) allows function literals to have names so you can write
anonymous recursive functions.  But it doesn't work right in rhino:

var f = function fact(x) { if (x <= 1) return 1; else return x*fact(x-1); };
print(f(5));

This results in 

js> js: "<stdin>", line 12: uncaught JavaScript exception: ReferenceError:
"fact" is not defined. (<stdin>; line 12)

Comment 1

[Norris Boyd]

I'm working on this--it's harder than it looks.

Comment 2

[Norris Boyd]

Fixed. The name of the function is assigned to a local variable in the 
function prolog when appropriate.