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#2917 — 5.1.5: incorrect IterationStatement expansion

• bug_id: 2917
• creation_ts: 2014-05-29 10:31:00 -0700
• short_desc: 5.1.5: incorrect IterationStatement expansion
• delta_ts: 2014-07-18 14:29:54 -0700
• product: Draft for 6th Edition
• component: technical issue
• version: Rev 25: May 22, 2014 Draft
• rep_platform: All
• op_sys: All
• bug_status: RESOLVED
• resolution: FIXED
• priority: Normal
• bug_severity: minor
• everconfirmed: true
• reporter: guptha
• assigned_to: Allen Wirfs-Brock
• cc: ["gupta.rajagopal", "jorendorff"]

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• commentid: 8667
• comment_count: 0
• who: guptha
• bug_when: 2014-05-29 10:31:28 -0700

In section 5.1.5, there are missing semi-colons.
IterationStatement :
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expressionopt ; Expressionopt ) Statement
is a convenient abbreviation for:
IterationStatement :
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expressionopt ) Statement
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expression ; Expressionopt ) Statement
which in turn is an abbreviation for:
IterationStatement :
for ( LexicalDeclaration ) Statement
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expression) Statement
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expression ; ;) Statement
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expression ; Expression) Statement

should be:

IterationStatement :
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expressionopt ; Expressionopt ) Statement
is a convenient abbreviation for:
IterationStatement :
for ( LexicalDeclaration ; Expressionopt ) Statement
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expression ; Expressionopt ) Statement
which in turn is an abbreviation for:
IterationStatement :
for ( LexicalDeclaration ; ) Statement
for ( LexicalDeclaration ; Expression) Statement
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expression ;) Statement
for ( LexicalDeclaration Expression ; Expression) Statement

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• commentid: 8668
• comment_count: 1
• who: Jason Orendorff
• bug_when: 2014-05-29 10:54:34 -0700

Allen, Guptha is working at Mozilla in Mountain View. We're working together and he might decide to implement some new ES6 features for us.

Guptha, Allen is the editor of the ECMAScript Language Specification. He also works for Mozilla.

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• commentid: 9170
• comment_count: 2
• who: Allen Wirfs-Brock
• bug_when: 2014-07-12 09:23:23 -0700

fixed in rev26 editor's draft

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• commentid: 9275
• comment_count: 3
• who: Allen Wirfs-Brock
• bug_when: 2014-07-18 14:29:54 -0700

in rev26