Can syntax errors be caught in JavaScript?

Question

MDN states:

A SyntaxError is thrown when the JavaScript engine encounters tokens or token order that does not conform to the syntax of the language wh

Answer 1

It's runtime errors that can be caught with try-catch, not syntax errors (if you eval your code you can handle syntax errors in the evaled code but that's just weird).

I'd recommend you read these:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide/Statements#try...catch_Statement

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide/Statements#Exception_Handling_Statements