Babel ES6 unable to export function called new or delete

Question

Babel and ESLint are throwing parsing errors when i try to export a function with the name "new" or "delete".

export function new () {}
export function delete () {}

Why is this happening? Is this a bug or is this not plausible because of babel?

Answer 1

Well new and delete are reserved words of JavaScript language. So they are not valid names for function.