Re: [XBL] ECMAScript Syntax

Marcos Caceres:
> Using ( ) in ({ ...}) is mostly convention (ie. evaluate all inside { },
> like you would with say x = (3 + (4 * 3)) ).

And more importantly, it distinguishes it from a code block, which is
what it would be parsed as otherwise since it is at the beginning of the
statement/expression.

  >>> { a: 1, b: 2}
  org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: missing ; before statement (System.in#2)
  >>> ({ a: 1, b: 2 })
  [object Object]

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Received on Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:52:10 UTC