Bug 127484 - jsc-cli REPL should allow multi-line input
Summary: jsc-cli REPL should allow multi-line input
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: JavaScriptCore (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Mark Hahnenberg
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Blocks: 127432
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Reported: 2014-01-23 08:39 PST by Mark Hahnenberg
Modified: 2014-01-23 08:40 PST (History)
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Description Mark Hahnenberg 2014-01-23 08:39:02 PST
Legacy jsc allows this, and it's a feature of many other modern REPLs too. Not 100% sure how to do it. Maybe doing paren and brace matching will get us most of the way there. So things like:

(function() {
  return 42;
})();

or:

var f = function(a, b) {
  return a + b;
};

would be possible.