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Eugene Gluhotorenko
Eugene Gluhotorenko

Reputation: 3164

strange behavior of Chrome Developer Tools Console

If you type in the console

> new Object()

Empty js object will appear in the console and it is expected, but if you type

> {}

You get undefined

It is strange. Doesn't it ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 311

Answers (1)

Pointy
Pointy

Reputation: 414036

Calling a function with new always results in a value. Now, your second line,

{}

is an empty code block, not an object literal.

Try:

({})

or:

0,{}

The console parses lines you type as statements, not expressions. An open curly brace at the start of a statement is a block delimiter, therefore, and not the start of an object literal. By including other tokens to force the parser into parsing an expression, you can then begin an object literal.

Upvotes: 6

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