[whatwg] Web Workers: "SyntaxError exception"?

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Nov 30 22:47:00 PST 2009


On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
>
> Web Workers says
> 
> "If it failed to parse, then throw a SyntaxError exception and abort all 
> these steps."
> 
> Shouldn't that be SYNTAX_ERR exception?

No, it's trying to emulate eval().

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