Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Javascript: a bug that makes me r

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

wtp-dev is where you should raise this.

We have a PR for SR1 that will go in an disable this 1998 crappy 
validation.

Thus you at least don't get these bogus warnings/error markers.

/max

> I am excited about mars being out. But there is a bug,
> that makes me really really sad. The most popular eclipse
> package is JavaEE and it contains JavaScript. But eclipse
> supports only JavaScript 1998.
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=223131
>
> The most annoying problem is that modern versions of javascript
> allow keywords if they are part of a data structure:
>
> promise.catch(function(){...});
> var foo {
>    default: 42
> }
>
>
>
>
> Many libraries use `throw` and `catch` as methods on objects
> and this causes a lot of errors and the rest of the file cannot
> be parsed.
>
> I know there are a lot of different javascript solutions out
> there that work better than this. But, the out of box experience
> with eclipse is, well suboptimal.
>
> Is there anything the architecture council can do about this?
>
>
> Michael
>
>
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/max
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