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<div>It's a runtime interpreter. It tokenises the code as it executes it. I've never fully understood the whole lexing / tokenising process: the code is in the XMLEngine.fla. There is the odd scenario it chokes on, but seven years on and must be several million
lines of execution later, I'm happy to say it mostly works!</div>
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<div>I would have hought that is what's happening, yes, and why myVar = new Date().getTime(); works.</div>
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<font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mike Baker [Mike.Baker@RelianceInteractive.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 31 March 2011 16:16<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Xerte discussion list'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: getTime oddness<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Because it forces the compiler to consider the phrase in the parens first. It may have been trying to do new (Date().getTime()); if the compiler tokenizes
by whitespace first.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: getTime oddness</span></p>
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debug((new Date()).getTime());<br>
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works with extra parentheses. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>
To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:06:05 +0100<br>
Subject: [Xerte] Re: getTime oddness</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett [d_b_burnett@hotmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 31 March 2011 10:27<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] getTime oddness</span></p>
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Why would I get an undefined here?<br>
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debug(new Date().getTime());<br>
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new Date() gives me a date.</span></p>
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