JavaScript

ShockScript gets too many roots from JavaScript, although more particularly linked to a previously abandoned version, JavaScript 2 (or ECMAScript 4th).

Map data type

The ShockScript's Map data type differs fundamentally from JavaScript's Map in that key-value pairs are accessed more naturally. ShockScript resolves the ambiguity between pairs and the prototype by differentiating property read and call.

m.x = 10
m.length()

Note: For a customized type, it might be necessary to access a fixed variable rather than an arbitrary key-value pair; for that, the user may use a fixed expression as in <?fixed={object.q::n}?>.

Variable shadowing

In ShockScript the following is valid in an activation:

var m:* = complex.manager;
// more code...
var m = Manager(m);

“not” keyword

not may be used to negate in or is operators:

e not in a
v is not T

“this” binding

The this binding is fixed and present only in instance methods.

• Methods like [object Function].apply() do not take a this binding: only the parameters.
• Instance methods are bound.