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VM: Unexpected behavior in vm.runInContext  #3521

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'use strict';
const vm = require('vm');

let obj = {};

const ctx = vm.createContext(obj);
vm.runInContext('name = 1', ctx);
console.log(obj);
vm.runInContext('function name() {}', ctx);
console.log(obj);

gives

{ name: 1 }
{ name: 1 }

vm.runInContext fails to overwrite name property of given context.

Tested versions: v4.1.1 & v4.2.1

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