Possible scope leak in Nashorn

[Tim Fox]

Oops! Forgot to provide a link to the example...

Here it is:

https://gist.github.com/purplefox/7804105

On 05/12/13 12:42, Tim Fox wrote:
> Hello Nashorn folks,
>
> I've been playing around with Nashorn today, and in particular I've 
> been trying to implement commonJS-like require() functionality, but 
> having some problems. Most probably I am doing something stupid...
>
> I'm sure you all know, with commonJS modules you can "require" them 
> from your JS scripts, e.g.
>
> var someObject = require("modulename");
>
> Then in modulename.js
>
> you do your stuff then export the object that ends up being returned 
> from the require, e.g.
>
> var someObject = {
>   foo: "bar"
> }
>
> module.exports = someObject;
>
> One key thing is that modules have their own scope, so any globals 
> defined in modulename.js shouldn't be visible in the script that 
> requires them, and vice versa.
>
> While trying to implement this using Nashorn and running scripts in 
> different scopes I've found it's possible for Nashorn to get confused 
> about what scope it's using, and for scopes to leak from one to another.
>
> I created this simple runnable example to demonstrate the issue.
>
> I wonder if anyone can advise whether this is a bug, or perhaps I am 
> using the API incorrectly. If the latter, could you advise on the 
> proper way to use the API to implement this kind of functionality.
>
> Many thanks
>
>