Support this Stage 4 proposal to allow omission of catch variable in cases where the error is unused:
try {
// ...
} catch {
// ...
}
See Why? for justification and more details.
This has already been implemented in v8 6.6 and is available in recent versions of Chrome and in Node.js 10.
To reproduce
escodegen.generate({
type: 'TryStatement',
block: {
type: 'BlockStatement',
body: []
},
handler: {
type: 'CatchClause',
param: null,
body: {
type: 'BlockStatement',
body: []
}
},
finalizer: null
})
Output
/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:2446
type = expr.type || Syntax.Property;
^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'type' of null
at CodeGenerator.generateExpression (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:2446:21)
at /Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:1181:26
at withIndent (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:574:9)
at CodeGenerator.CatchClause (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:1176:13)
at CodeGenerator.generateStatement (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:2465:33)
at CodeGenerator.TryStatement (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:1526:52)
at CodeGenerator.generateStatement (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:2465:33)
at generateInternal (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:2486:28)
at Object.generate (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/escodegen.js:2554:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/ehdens/misc-oss/escodegen/demo.js:3:24)
Expected Output
Support this Stage 4 proposal to allow omission of
catchvariable in cases where the error is unused:See Why? for justification and more details.
This has already been implemented in v8 6.6 and is available in recent versions of Chrome and in Node.js 10.
To reproduce
Output
Expected Output