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This document specifies deprecated extensions to the ESTree API that were at one point supported in Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for features that were experimental or came from defunct standards.

Functions

extend interface Function {
    body: BlockStatement | Expression;
    expression: boolean;
}

If the expression flag is true, the function is an expression closure and the body field is an expression.

Statements

ForInStatement

extend interface ForInStatement {
   each: boolean;
}

If each is true, a for each/in statement.

LetStatement

interface LetStatement <: Statement {
    type: "LetStatement";
    head: [ VariableDeclarator ];
    body: Statement;
}

A let statement.

SwitchStatement

extend interface SwitchStatement {
    lexical: boolean;
}

The lexical flag is metadata indicating whether the switch statement contains any unnested let declarations (and therefore introduces a new lexical scope).

TryStatement

extend interface TryStatement {
    handlers: [ CatchClause ];
    guardedHandlers: [ CatchClause ];
}

The length of handlers may be any non-negative integer.

Expressions

ComprehensionExpression

interface ComprehensionExpression <: Expression {
    type: "ComprehensionExpression";
    body: Expression;
    blocks: [ ComprehensionBlock ];
    filter: Expression | null;
}

An array comprehension. The blocks array corresponds to the sequence of for and for each blocks. The optional filter expression corresponds to the final if clause, if present.

GeneratorExpression

interface GeneratorExpression <: Expression {
    type: "GeneratorExpression";
    body: Expression;
    blocks: [ ComprehensionBlock ];
    filter: Expression | null;
}

A generator expression. As with array comprehensions, the blocks array corresponds to the sequence of for and for each blocks, and the optional filter expression corresponds to the final if clause, if present.

GraphExpression

interface GraphExpression <: Expression {
    type: "GraphExpression";
    index: uint32;
    expression: Literal;
}

A graph expression, aka "sharp literal," such as #1={ self: #1# }.

GraphIndexExpression

interface GraphIndexExpression <: Expression {
    type: "GraphIndexExpression";
    index: uint32;
}

A graph index expression, aka "sharp variable," such as #1#.

LetExpression

interface LetExpression <: Expression {
    type: "LetExpression";
    head: [ VariableDeclarator ];
    body: Expression;
}

A let expression.

Clauses

CatchClause

extend interface CatchClause {
    guard: Expression | null;
}

The optional guard property corresponds to the optional expression guard on the bound variable.

ComprehensionBlock

interface ComprehensionBlock <: Node {
    type: "ComprehensionBlock";
    left: Pattern;
    right: Expression;
    each: boolean;
}

A for or for each block in an array comprehension or generator expression.

Miscellaneous

BinaryOperator

extend enum BinaryOperator {
    ".."
}

The ".." token is E4X-specific.

E4X

E4X was specified by ECMA-357 but has become a defunct standard. It was implemented for several years in SpiderMonkey but was removed starting in Firefox 21.

Declarations

XMLDefaultDeclaration

interface XMLDefaultDeclaration <: Declaration {
    type: "XMLDefaultDeclaration";
    namespace: Expression;
}

A default xml namespace declaration.

Expressions

XMLAnyName

interface XMLAnyName <: Expression {
    type: "XMLAnyName";
}

The special E4X wildcard pseudo-identifier *.

XMLQualifiedIdentifier

interface XMLQualifiedIdentifier <: Expression {
    type: "XMLQualifiedIdentifier";
    left: Identifier | XMLAnyName;
    right: Identifier | Expression;
    computed: boolean;
}

An E4X qualified identifier, i.e., a pseudo-identifier using the namespace separator ::. If the qualified identifier has a computed name (i.e., the id::[expr] form), then computed is true and the right property is an expression.

XMLFunctionQualifiedIdentifier

interface XMLFunctionQualifiedIdentifier <: Expression {
    type: "XMLFunctionQualifiedIdentifier";
    right: Identifier | Expression;
    computed: boolean;
}

An E4X identifier qualified by the function keyword, e.g., function::id. (This functionality was a non-standard SpiderMonkey extension.)

XMLAttributeSelector

interface XMLAttributeSelector <: Expression {
    type: "XMLAttributeSelector";
    attribute: Expression;
}

An E4X attribute selector expression, i.e., an @ expression.

XMLFilterExpression

interface XMLFilterExpression <: Expression {
    type: "XMLFilterExpression";
    left: Expression;
    right: Expression;
}

An E4X list filter expression, i.e., an expression of the form expr.(expr).

XMLElement

interface XMLElement <: XML, Expression {
    type: "XMLElement";
    contents: [ XML ];
}

An E4X literal representing a single XML element.

XMLList

interface XMLList <: XML, Expression {
    type: "XMLList";
    contents: [ XML ];
}

An E4X literal representing a list of XML elements.

XML

interface XML <: Node { }

XML data.

XMLEscape

interface XMLEscape <: XML {
    type: "XMLEscape";
    expression: Expression;
}

XML data with an escaped JavaScript expression.

XMLText

interface XMLText <: XML {
    type: "XMLText";
    text: string;
}

Literal XML text.

XMLStartTag

interface XMLStartTag <: XML {
    type: "XMLStartTag";
    contents: [ XML ];
}

An XML start tag.

XMLEndTag

interface XMLEndTag <: XML {
    type: "XMLEndTag";
    contents: [ XML ];
}

An XML end tag.

XMLPointTag

interface XMLPointTag <: XML {
    type: "XMLPointTag";
    contents: [ XML ];
}

An XML point tag.

XMLName

interface XMLName <: XML {
    type: "XMLName";
    contents: string | [ XML ];
}

An XML name.

XMLAttribute

interface XMLAttribute <: XML {
    type: "XMLAttribute";
    value: string;
}

An XML attribute value.

XMLCdata

interface XMLCdata <: XML {
    type: "XMLCdata";
    contents: string;
}

An XML CDATA node.

XMLComment

interface XMLComment <: XML {
    type: "XMLComment";
    contents: string;
}

An XML comment.

XMLProcessingInstruction

interface XMLProcessingInstruction <: XML {
    type: "XMLProcessingInstruction";
    target: string;
    contents: string | null;
}

An XML processing instruction.