Is there a non-strict setting for the eval() function?

[A. Sundararajan]

Hi,

Since you didn't give full sample code, I wrote this:

import javax.script.*;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
       ScriptEngineManager m = new ScriptEngineManager();
       ScriptEngine engine = m.getEngineByName("nashorn");
       engine.eval("age = 5");
       System.out.println(engine.get("age"));
    }
}

It compiled and ran as expected.

-Sundar

On Monday 10 March 2014 06:23 PM, Walter Higgins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In JRE6/7 I can run code like this...
>
> scriptEngine.eval(' age = 5 ');
>
> ... but in Nashorn the following fails ( ReferenceError) ...
>
> eval( ' age = 5' );
>
> Is there a way to make the native eval() function provided by Nashorn not
> be so strict?
>