So, should it be possible to access these shortcuts anywhere else than
while eval'ing an expression and/or should it be possible to use them in
complex expressions? At least according to the Lisp reference, it should
be possible to use them in complex expressions, but that's currently
only possible in swf8 and dhtml. And only in swf8, you can access the
values globally, but that doesn't seem to be intended as you said below.
If Compiler#compileAndWriteToSWF() and Compiler#compileAndWriteToAS3()
are changed to include `with (Debug.environment) { ... }`, it should be
possible to use the shortcuts in complex expressions and avoid polluting
the global namespace. These changes seem to be quite easy or did I miss
anything?
On 9/27/2009 1:46 PM, P T Withington wrote:
These are shortcuts that old Lisp hackers know by heart
(http://bit.ly/2Ll3qS), although they have been renamed to be legal
Javascript symbols. This is why we have not felt any need to document
them. :)
They are supposed to work in all runtimes. In an attempt to reduce
global namespace pollution, I moved them out of the global namespace
into `Debug.environment` (which is where they more properly belong --
the Debugger should not be storing its state in the application's
namespace), as is stated in your first reference. See the note at line
91 of swf9/LzDebug.as. What really needs to happen is for the swf9
debug evaluator to wrap `with (Debug.environment) { ... }` around the
expressions it compiles, just as dhtml/LzDebug.js does in `doEval`. I
think this has to happen in the compiler, not the debugger, because of
the other code the compiler wraps around evaluations to heuristicate
whether it is an expression or statement and to report errors.
On 2009-09-27, at 07:06, André Bargull wrote:
The last three results of debugger evals are stored in '_', '__' and
'___' to provide a fast way to access these values again. Currently,
swf8 stores the values in the global object, whereas AS3 runtimes
store the values in the global object "global". This means in swf8 you
could write 'Debug.write("last result was %#w", _)', but this is
currently not possible in swf9/swf10. My question: Should this be
considered as a bug? I don't think there is any official documentation
for these short-hands [1], so maybe it was only intended that '_' as a
single expression should work?!
PS: '_' as a single expression works in swf9/swf10, because that's a
"simple expression" and therefore handled by "evalSimpleExpr" which
calls "globalValue" and "globalValue" looks up values in the global
object "global".
[1] Google only found these two results:
- http://www.openlaszlo.org/pipermail/laszlo-dev/2009-June/021356.html
- http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-630
