Re: Inserting Multiple Lines from Console

From:
lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk">
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:28:11 +0100
Message-ID:
<tIudncopGZSRXv7MnZ2dnUVZ8h6dnZ2d@bt.com>
On 08/04/13 15:06, Stefan Ram wrote:

subhabangalore@gmail.com writes:

If anyone can kindly suggest how may I improve it?


public class Main
{
   public void quit(){ java.lang.System.exit( 0 ); }

   public void main() throws java.lang.Throwable
   { final javax.script.ScriptEngine scriptEngine
     = new javax.script.ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName( "JavaScript" );
     scriptEngine.put( "main", this );
     final java.lang.StringBuilder text = new java.lang.StringBuilder();
     scriptEngine.put( "text", text );
     scriptEngine.eval( "print('');" ); // loads engine for faster reaction
     java.lang.System.out.printf
     ( "*** Texteditor 2000, V1.0 ***%n%n %d Bytes Free%n%n Enter%n%ntext." +
       "append('example');%n%n or other StringBuilder calls in JavaScript " +
       "syntax to edit,%n%n or enter%n%nmain.quit();%n%n to quit.%n%n",
       java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory() );
     while( true )try
     { java.lang.System.out.printf( "%n> ", text );
       java.lang.System.out.println
       ( scriptEngine.eval( System.console().readLine() ));
       java.lang.System.out.printf( "%s%n", text ); }
     catch( final java.lang.Throwable throwable )
     { java.lang.System.err.println( throwable ); }}

   public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
   throws java.lang.Throwable { new Main().main(); }}


This is surreal, if you run this code, the output is ... well
interesting to say the least. Not sure how it meets the OP requirements
but in fairness I'm not sure what the OP requirements are in the fist
place so who's to say it's not 'correct'

Incidentally if you strip all the unnecessary garbage from the code and
introduce some sanity to the formating it does make it slightly easier
to read.

Very strange, is it mushroom season where you are?

lipska

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