AppStudio 6 introduces a new project property called useStrict. It catches a number of previously non fatal errors in your code and gives error messages.
Here’s an example. If you have the following code:
a = "george"
where a has not been defined, you will get an error with useStrict set to True. There is no error if it is False. UseStrict forces you to have better code.
The solution is to declare the variable before use, using Dim for BASIC and var for JavaScript.
Dim a ' BASIC var a; // JavaScript a = "george"
Caution: If you turn useStrict on with an existing project, you need to do a complete retest of every part of your project. It will throw errors in code which worked before.
Here is a list of issues found by useStrict:
- Disallows global variables. (Catches missing var declarations and typos in variable names)
- Silent failing assignments will throw error in strict mode (assigning NaN = 5;)
- Attempts to delete undeletable properties will throw (delete Object.prototype)
- Requires all property names in an object literal to be unique (var x = {x1: “1”, x1: “2”})
- Function parameter names must be unique (function sum (x, x) {…})
- Forbids octal syntax (var x = 023; some devs assume wrongly that a preceding zero does nothing to change the number.)
- Forbids the with keyword
- eval in strict mode does not introduce new variables
- Forbids deleting plain names (delete x;)
- Forbids binding or assignment of the names eval and arguments in any form
- Strict mode does not alias properties of the arguments object with the formal parameters. (i.e. in function sum (a,b) { return arguments[0] + b;} This works because arguments[0] is bound to a and so on. )
- arguments.callee is not supported
- Keywords are checked, including some new ones: implements, interface, let, package, private, protected, public, static, and yield.