[Xerte] Re: getTime oddness

[Dave Burnett]

Just for archives clarity.

myVar = new Date().getTime();
debug(myVar); //undefined

myVar = (new Date()).getTime();

debug(myVar); //1301590743993


From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: Mike.Baker at RelianceInteractive.com; xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:48:47 +0100
Subject: [Xerte] Re: getTime oddness











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!
 
I would have hought that is what's happening, yes, and why myVar = new Date().getTime(); works.
 


From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mike Baker [Mike.Baker at RelianceInteractive.com]

Sent: 31 March 2011 16:16

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: getTime oddness







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.
 
Mike
 
 



From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:24 AM

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: getTime oddness


 


debug((new Date()).getTime());



works with extra parentheses. 



?











From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:06:05 +0100

Subject: [Xerte] Re: getTime oddness


myVar = new Date().getTime();


debug(myVar); ??


 





From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
 [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett [d_b_burnett at hotmail.com]

Sent: 31 March 2011 10:27

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Subject: [Xerte] getTime oddness




Why would I get an undefined here?



debug(new Date().getTime());



new Date() gives me a date.




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