Subj : Re: server-side compilation using spidermonkey
To : wyl_lyf
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 03:53 pm
wyl_lyf@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello! Thanks for the patience. I tried the program. But I don't think
> it detects any syntax errors because if I placed in an unknown object
> name. it still says okay.??
What are you talking about, exactly? Please give a complete example.
> I checked the usage of the API
> JS_BufferIsCompilableUnit but I can't see it on spidermonkey?
If you mean in the API docs, it may have been added (by mccabe, if
memory serves) after the API docs were (poorly) written by a tech writer
at Netscape, years ago, and no one ever updated the docs. Read the
source, use the force.
> can this process this input file:
> Response.Write ("\n");
> Response.Write ("\n");
> Response.Write ("Customer\n");
> Response.Write (" content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1>\n
> ");
> Response.Write ("\n");
> Response.Write ("\n");
> Response.Write (" \n");
> mytest.example();
> Response.Write (" \n");
> Response.Write ("\n");
> Response.Write ("\n");
This looks like valid JS to me. If you want something that can detect
an unknown object name (Response? Response.Write? I have no idea what
you define and do not define), you are looking for more than *syntax*
checking, as I predicted two messages ago
(news://news.mozilla.org:119/41DD840B.8000904@meer.net). Name binding
is not a matter of syntax, but of semantics -- you can't write a JS
grammar that accepts only programs with bound names, in general.
Please pick your problem and state it carefully when asking for help!
/be
.