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<Justin Ridgewell>
There’s a special Annex B compact rule for assignment to a call expression.
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<Justin Ridgewell>
Has to do with some legacy IE behavior
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<Justin Ridgewell>
Both of those examples are SyntaxErrors in the proper grammar.
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<Ashley Claymore>
ah! Thanks Justin Ridgewell
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<bakkot>
there is not such a legacy rule even though there should be
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<bakkot>
open issue: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/257 and PR: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/2193
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<Ashley Claymore>
the rabbit hole gets ever deeper
01:47
<Justin Ridgewell>
Whoops, I'm misremembering then.