this change causes jshint 2.7.0 to break. Your change anticipates jshint erroring on the ~~~~~ line, but this is the only test in this directory that does that. The answer to the breakage I'm seeing might just be "use the latest version of jshint", but I just wanted to double check the inconsistency and the use of an error for a line that's not part of the code.

Yeah, we don't really have a way to run version-specific unit tests at the moment (see T4954).