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17.09.2014, 15:32, Eric Sosman kirjoitti:
> On 9/17/2014 4:48 AM, Chris Uppal wrote:
>> Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>> I do not understand why people are really asking these type of
>>> questions.  It is more rewarding and faster, too, to try these things
>>> out than going to a newsgroup to wait for a reply.
>>
>> But, on the other hand, on the newsgroup you may get an /explanation/,
>> or at
>> least a link to one.  Not gonna happen by experiment (whence Science).
> 
>     There's also the possibility that the result I obtained might
> have been specific to the particular script engine (Nashorn), and
> might be different from that obtained by other engines.  If the O.P.
> had said "I get null; is that by specification or by happenstance?"
> that would have been a better question (and would have showed some
> evidence of energy on his part).  But ...
> 
>     O.P.: It yields `null'.
> 

Indeed I do not use Nashorn, and I do not get a null. I use
'rhino:js:1.7R2', maybe I have to switch it to Nashorn. Thanks for the
pointer, and sad that these things are implementation specific.

-- 

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