Re: Spec for [Global] does not seem to be quite web-compatible, and none of the UAs are really compatible with each other from Garrett Smith on 2013-12-26 (public-script-coord@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 07:33:45 -0800
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABZUbM1-VvPqTTJZYRjipUtsZO7YKrcZY-RxiVsen0tyzAFd9A@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/26/13, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 12/26/13 12:12 AM, Garrett Smith wrote:
>> Simple assignment to onload = { foo: "bar"; }; should be a
>> SyntaxError.
>
> Whyever would it be a syntaxerror?  Are you saying that's what the spec
> says (it doesn't, afaict) or that's what the spec should say (it
> shouldn't, because I'm 99.9% sure that's not web-compatible).
>

You can't have a semicolon in an object literal like that. Look: {
foo: "bar"; };

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