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Bob Arning-2

funny error

If you are typing some javascript inside a squeak string, like:

'mumble("x");
grumble("*");'

there are subtle things that can go wrong. If you inadvertently type

mumble('x');

you'll get a compiler error, but if you type

grumble('*');

can you guess the result without actually running it?

Cheers,
Bob

Bert Freudenberg

Re: funny error

On 2013-08-31, at 20:28, Bob Arning <[hidden email]> wrote:

If you are typing some javascript inside a squeak string, like:

'mumble("x");
grumble("*");'

there are subtle things that can go wrong. If you inadvertently type

mumble('x');

you'll get a compiler error, but if you type

grumble('*');

can you guess the result without actually running it?

Cheers,
Bob

You mean

'grumble('*');'

I do have a guess indeed :)

- Bert -

Bob Arning-2

Re: funny error

Well, it appears to have been fixed in more recent released, but, yes something like

'mumble("x");
grumble('*');'

although with so much more stuff around it that you forget you are inside a squeak string.

Cheers,
Bob

On 8/31/13 2:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

On 2013-08-31, at 20:28, Bob Arning <[hidden email]> wrote:

If you are typing some javascript inside a squeak string, like:

'mumble("x");
grumble("*");'

there are subtle things that can go wrong. If you inadvertently type

mumble('x');

you'll get a compiler error, but if you type

grumble('*');

can you guess the result without actually running it?

Cheers,
Bob

You mean

'grumble('*');'

I do have a guess indeed :)

- Bert -

Eliot Miranda-2

Re: funny error

In reply to this post by Bob Arning-2

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Bob Arning <[hidden email]> wrote:

If you are typing some javascript inside a squeak string, like:

'mumble("x");
grumble("*");'

I have a quasi-literal implementation that'll fix that ;-)

there are subtle things that can go wrong. If you inadvertently type

mumble('x');

you'll get a compiler error, but if you type

grumble('*');

can you guess the result without actually running it?

Cheers,
Bob

--
best,

Eliot