Thanks. Surrounding the expression with parenthesis made it work. cheers
On Mar 5, 12:29 pm, Vyacheslav Egorov <[email protected]> wrote: > JavaScript grammar has it's peculiarities. Program "{ value: {a: > [1,2,3,4,5,6]} }" is parsed not as object literal but as block > statement with labeled block statement inside; where inner block > statement contains labeled expression statement (so value and a are > become labels, not property names). > > You have to enclose top level expression like that in parenthesis if > you want to ensure that it is parsed as an expression. > > -- > Vyacheslav Egorov > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, fdmanana <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > When trying to evaluate the following object expression in the shell, > > I get a syntax error: > > > $ v8 > > V8 version 3.8.9 [sample shell] > >> { value: {a: [1,2,3,4,5,6], b: 1} } > > (shell):1: SyntaxError: Unexpected token : > > { value: {a: [1,2,3,4,5,6], b: 1} } > > ^ > > SyntaxError: Unexpected token : > > > The syntax seems correct to me. > > Node.js's shell for e.g. doesn't complain about it: > > > $ node > >> { value: {a: [1,2,3,4,5,6], b: 1} } > > { value: { a: [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ], b: 1 } } > > > If I remove the second property of the inner object it works: > > > $ v8 > >> { value: {a: [1,2,3,4,5,6]} } > > 1,2,3,4,5,6 > > > Evaluating the code via v8::Script::Compile also produces the same > > error. > > > I'm using V8 version 3.8.9 installed via HomeBrew on Mac OS X 10.7.3. > > > Thanks. > > > -- > > v8-users mailing list > > [email protected] > >http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
