From 2feb72a0e4e407f536ed4092e11c72ea968dcc4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saquib <saquibulhassan6@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 00:41:46 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix parse error throwing a `TypeError`, instead of
 `SyntaxError` (#748)

---
 boa/src/context.rs    | 2 +-
 boa/src/exec/tests.rs | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/boa/src/context.rs b/boa/src/context.rs
index cb2b6abf9f..aa7b64ddbc 100644
--- a/boa/src/context.rs
+++ b/boa/src/context.rs
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ impl Context {
 
         let result = match Self::parser_expr(src) {
             Ok(expr) => expr.run(self),
-            Err(e) => self.throw_type_error(e),
+            Err(e) => self.throw_syntax_error(e),
         };
 
         // The main_timer needs to be dropped before the BoaProfiler is.
diff --git a/boa/src/exec/tests.rs b/boa/src/exec/tests.rs
index 4927b74ef2..7ffd08e366 100644
--- a/boa/src/exec/tests.rs
+++ b/boa/src/exec/tests.rs
@@ -1377,3 +1377,9 @@ fn test_conditional_op() {
     let scenario = "1 === 2 ? 'a' : 'b'";
     assert_eq!(&exec(scenario), "\"b\"");
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn test_identifier_op() {
+    let scenario = "break = 1";
+    assert_eq!(&exec(scenario), "\"SyntaxError\": \"expected token \'identifier\', got \'=\' in binding identifier at line 1, col 7\"");
+}