Subj : armhf installed web telnet garbles input
To   : Ree
From : echicken
Date : Fri Sep 06 2024 11:06 am

  Re: armhf installed web telnet garbles input
  By: Ree to W5jsn on Fri Sep 06 2024 09:51:19

 Re> Things just keep getting weirder...the latest version is working as
 Re> expected! But there weren't any logic changes at all, just two extra debug
 Re> outputs, so there's no reason for this version to work and the previous

This reminds me of a problem I ran into sometime last year, though I don't remember the details. I called it Shroedinger's Variable. (Amusingly, the guy who brought the bug to my attention turned out to be a physics teacher.)

Something was seemingly undefined at runtime *except* when I used log, writeln, some other things that required it to be resolved immediately. As if the same wasn't also necessary for math, evaluation, etc.

It would be interesting to play with different compilation options controlling the behavior of the JS runtime, though I don't remember what's available. I don't know if this would be related to eg. JIT or if it's some weird interplay with the Socket object or what.

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