Using eval(), debugging in general...
Hello again... I'm back for round 2. Before my other post starts to get off topic, I thought I'd start a new one... on debugging JS. What are your thoughts? Anyone have some tips or tricks?
I am not totally new to JS, but really haven't used it all that much up until recently. I used to program in C++ at my first job (about 3 years), then I quit there, and at the new job there is a scarcity of anything that cool... the closest I get is JS. But, I'm finding it is almost as fun- despite how tiny it is in comparison. Ok, enough with the boring stuff, here is something I thought was mega cool:
The eval() function. In conjunction with an <input/> or two, it seems to have endless possibilities! Let's say you had a couple text boxes (I like textarea's for this purpose).. named "_input" and "_output". Then you have a button, which will eval() the contents of "_input" and print them to "_output":
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