Confusing error message when attempting to access private class field.

[chenh...@gmail.com]

First I created a test class like this below:

class Test {
 #x = 'private'
}

And then when I attempted to get that private field "#x":

const test = new Test()
console.log(test.#x)

I recieved an error like this:

SyntaxError: Private field '#x' must be declared in an enclosing class

I thought that this error message is confusing. A better one could be like this:

SyntaxError: Attempting to access private field '#x" 

[Sathya Gunasekaran]

+Joyee Cheung 

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[Joyee Cheung]

Can you reply in https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=8578 ?

I think there was some suggestion similar to `Attempting to access private field '#x'` but we ended up going with the current message instead because we thought this one is less confusing - it points out how the user should fix this (by enclosing it with a class) instead of just why.

On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 12:52:48 AM UTC+8, Sathya Gunasekaran wrote:

+Joyee Cheung 

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:33 AM <chenh...@gmail.com> wrote:

First I created a test class like this below:

class Test {
 #x = 'private'
}

And then when I attempted to get that private field "#x":

const test = new Test()
console.log(test.#x)

I recieved an error like this:

SyntaxError: Private field '#x' must be declared in an enclosing class

I thought that this error message is confusing. A better one could be like this:

SyntaxError: Attempting to access private field '#x" 

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[HQ Chen]

OK, I see. I will have a look at that issue.

Joyee Cheung <jo...@igalia.com> 于2020年2月7日周五 下午1:40写道：

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