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// |reftest| error:SyntaxError
// Copyright (C) 2016 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
// This code is governed by the BSD license found in the LICENSE file.
/*---
esid: sec-evaldeclarationinstantiation
description: Variable collision with global lexical binding
info: |
[...]
5. If strict is false, then
a. If varEnvRec is a global Environment Record, then
i. For each name in varNames, do
1. If varEnvRec.HasLexicalDeclaration(name) is true, throw a
SyntaxError exception.
2. NOTE: eval will not create a global var declaration that would
be shadowed by a global lexical declaration.
[...]
negative:
phase: runtime
type: SyntaxError
flags: [noStrict]
features: [let]
---*/
let x;
// Although the `try` statement is a more precise mechanism for detecting
// runtime errors, the behavior under test is only observable for a direct eval
// call when the call is made from the global scope. This forces the use of
// the more coarse-grained `negative` frontmatter to assert the expected error.
eval('var x;');