I understand. Hope the potential breakage turns out to be minimum so the 
confusion can be resolved. In the mean time people would look up this 
mailing list as a reference I guess.

Thank you for the work. I appreciate every single bit!

Don

On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 6:42:39 PM UTC+9, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
>
> On 13 August 2015 at 11:05, Dongsung Kim <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, that's why! So glad it's a known issue you guys are working on. I 
>> hope for a fix since it's pretty confusing; the error popped up with let 
>> keyword said things of const keyword, but nothing from const. Would it be 
>> terrible to put up a warning when const keywords is spotted in non-strict 
>> mode?
>>
>
> That would certainly be useful. But V8 currently has no notion of warning, 
> and we didn't feel like introducing one just for this temporary problem. In 
> general, using strict mode is highly recommended anyway. ;)
>
> /Andreas
>
>
> On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 5:52:03 PM UTC+9, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
>>
>>> You currently need to be in strict mode to get ES6 `const` semantics in 
>>> V8/Chrome. In sloppy mode, you still get the crazy legacy web semantics 
>>> that isn't block-scoped (similarly with function decls). We have shied away 
>>> from changing that so far, because we fear it might break the web (on 
>>> mobile in particular). We have added use counters to Chrome 44+ to get some 
>>> data about potential breakage.
>>>
>>> /Andreas
>>>
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