Function "name" property (ES6)

Category: JavaScript
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 51)
Intent stage: None

Summary

In ECMAScript 2015, the "name" property on anonymous Function objects is sometimes set based on the syntactic position of the function (or class) expression. For example: var x = function() { }; x.name === 'x'

Standards & signals

Specification: http://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#sec-setfunctionname
Firefox: In development
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3699

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