Scopes and load()

[A. Sundararajan]

No, this is not a bug. Unlike "eval", "load" does not use local scopes 
(function scope, 'with' scope) etc. "load" always evaluates script using 
global object as the scope. Because there is no "foo" in global scope, 
the load throws ReferenceError for "foo". "eval" can see "foo" as eval 
can use local scopes in non-strict mode. With "strict" mode, "eval" too 
uses global scope always (does not use function scopes).

-Sundar

On Tuesday 02 September 2014 03:35 PM, David P. Caldwell wrote:
> Is this a bug?
>
> scopes.js
>
> with({ foo: "bar" }) {
> var evaluated = eval("foo");
>   print(evaluated);
> var loaded = load({ name: "foo.js", script: "foo" });
>   print(loaded);
> }
>
> $ jrunscript scopes.js
> bar
> script error in file scopes.js : ReferenceError: "foo" is not defined in
> foo.js at line number 1
>
> This is with jdk1.8.0_20.
>
> -- David P. Caldwell
> http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/