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doc: clean up and streamline vm.md examples #31474

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37 changes: 16 additions & 21 deletions doc/api/vm.md
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Expand Up @@ -175,9 +175,8 @@ for (let i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
script.runInContext(context);
}

console.log(util.inspect(context));

// { animal: 'cat', count: 12, name: 'kitty' }
console.log(context);
// Prints: { animal: 'cat', count: 12, name: 'kitty' }
```

Using the `timeout` or `breakOnSigint` options will result in new event loops
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -246,9 +245,8 @@ contexts.forEach((context) => {
script.runInNewContext(context);
});

console.log(util.inspect(contexts));

// [{ globalVar: 'set' }, { globalVar: 'set' }, { globalVar: 'set' }]
console.log(contexts);
// Prints: [{ globalVar: 'set' }, { globalVar: 'set' }, { globalVar: 'set' }]
```

### `script.runInThisContext([options])`
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vm.runInContext('globalVar *= 2;', context);

console.log(util.inspect(context)); // { globalVar: 2 }
console.log(context);
// Prints: { globalVar: 2 }

console.log(util.inspect(globalVar)); // 3
console.log(global.globalVar);
// Prints: 3
```

If `contextObject` is omitted (or passed explicitly as `undefined`), a new,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -906,9 +906,8 @@ vm.createContext(contextObject);
for (let i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
vm.runInContext('globalVar *= 2;', contextObject);
}
console.log(util.inspect(contextObject));

// { globalVar: 1024 }
console.log(contextObject);
// Prints: { globalVar: 1024 }
```

## `vm.runInNewContext(code[, contextObject[, options]])`
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};

vm.runInNewContext('count += 1; name = "kitty"', contextObject);
console.log(util.inspect(contextObject));

// { animal: 'cat', count: 3, name: 'kitty' }
console.log(contextObject);
// Prints: { animal: 'cat', count: 3, name: 'kitty' }
```

## `vm.runInThisContext(code[, options])`
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let localVar = 'initial value';

const vmResult = vm.runInThisContext('localVar = "vm";');
console.log('vmResult:', vmResult);
console.log('localVar:', localVar);
console.log(`vmResult: '${vmResult}', localVar: '${localVar}'`);
// Prints: vmResult: 'vm', localVar: 'initial value'

const evalResult = eval('localVar = "eval";');
console.log('evalResult:', evalResult);
console.log('localVar:', localVar);

// vmResult: 'vm', localVar: 'initial value'
// evalResult: 'eval', localVar: 'eval'
console.log(`evalResult: '${evalResult}', localVar: '${localVar}'`);
// Prints: evalResult: 'eval', localVar: 'eval'
```

Because `vm.runInThisContext()` does not have access to the local scope,
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