(was: Re: Java ScriptEngine with a JavaScript returning what?)

From:
Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:24:12 +0200
Message-ID:
<c7snodFre99U1@mid.individual.net>
On 17.09.2014 00:20, Eric Sosman wrote:

On 9/16/2014 4:02 PM, Donkey Hottie wrote:

Consider a JavaScript:

     var blah;
     blah;

So what does the Java's

     Object ScriptEngine::eval(String script) return now?


Btw, "::" is a C++ism that does not exist in Java. In Java we use a
single dot there.

blah is not null? Is it not undefined either? Java has no "undefined"
Object type.

What will happen, what will be returned?


     null

     (Obtained by a five-minute experiment. "Five" because I have no
acquaintance with the scripting framework and had to read some doc;
a better-versed person could have obtained the answer more quickly.)


<rant>
I do not understand why people are really asking these type of
questions. It is more rewarding and faster, too, to try these things
out than going to a newsgroup to wait for a reply.

I think it's time again to reference
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
</rant>

Bye

    robert

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