Variable of name, "name", is not validated

[xealot]

When a variable is named "name" (let name;) it is not checked for validity.

For example:

let s = {};
console.log(s[t]);

The tsc command fails on this code since t obviously doesn't exist. However, changing nothing else but the variable used in the object's index...

let s = {};
console.log(s[name]);

... tsc doesn't complain at all about this. To me this seems like a bug. Why are variables named name special?

Apologies if I missed an already open issue but due to the nature of the terms used to describe this issue it's kinda hard to search on.

[RyanCavanaugh]

name is the global that you could also access via window.name (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/name)

[RyanCavanaugh]

See also #1351 (comment) for a good explanation of why it would be a bad idea to remove the global name declaration, as one might be tempted to do.

[xealot]

I had a sneaking suspicion that it was falling back to a higher scope. Silly javascript. I tried the last suggestion in the thread you mentioned but it seemed to work fine. I'll comment there. Thank you once again @RyanCavanaugh!