On 4/13/16 12:08 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
It sounds like all the actual JS engines involved get all of this right;
the only difference is whether evaluation in the browser's console
happens in an expression context or in a statement context.
And in particular, it seems like most browsers evaluate console stuff in
a statement context, but Chrome is somewhat inconsistent about it. Some
experimentation suggests the following is happening, for various input
strings:
1) "{}": expression context; claims to be an Object.
2) " {}": expression context.
3) "var x = 1": statement context; defines a property named "x" on
the global.
4) "let x = 1": statement context; creates a binding for "x".
5) "function f() {}": statement context; defines a property named "f"
on the global.
I haven't experimented with more interesting whitespace preceding a '{'
but it looks like the heuristic is to use expression context if the
first non-whitespace character is '{' and to use statement context
otherwise or something.
-Boris
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