784358 - Defining const variable within eval() throws redeclaration error

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.79 Safari/537.1

Steps to reproduce:

Using Rhino 1.7 release 4 2012 06 18 I executed the following one line script:

eval("const a = 5;");


Actual results:

Rhino throws the following error:

line 1: TypeError: redeclaration of var a.


Expected results:

It should have defined the constant a.

Comment 1

[André Bargull [:anba]]

Pull request at https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/pull/83

Comment 2

[Hannes Wallnoefer]

Thanks André, merged to master:

https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/commit/49648dc502406fabe1f932424abd57d32e51e3b8