On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:05 AM, François REMY <fremycompany_...@yahoo.fr>wrote:
> I think that what he meant is that we know for sure in which scope we
> can find the property/variable. That the propery exists or not in the that
> scope is another issue.
>
> So, in the code “function getOoops(t) { t(); return function() { return
> ooops; } }” we know statically that the scope where the “ooops” variable is
> defined is the global scope. At runtime, we just need to do
> “globalScope.get(‘oops’)" to retreive the value (or throw).
>
Exactly.
> In non-strict ES, the “t” function may be eval, and eval could add a
> “oops” variable in the parent function getOoops. So, we don’t know at
> compilation if “ooops” belong the the global scope of from the function’s
> scope (we can only find that out at runtime).
>
>
As clarified in the rest of the thread. If "t"'s value is the original eval
function, this will still be an indirect call. But in non-strict
function getOoops(str) { eval(str); return function() { return ooops; }
}
we no longer no which ooops this code refers to.
>
>
> *From:* Šime Vidas <sime.vi...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:41 PM
> *To:* es-discuss@mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Is ES5 Strict a fully statically scoped language?
> In the talk "Changes to JavaScript, Part 1: EcmaScript 5", Mark Miller
> states that ES5 Default contains four static scope violations (direct link:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq4FpMe6cRs&t=42m53s). He also states that
> ES5 Strict corrects these violations, making ES5 Strict is a statically
> scoped language. I don't understand how that can be true, since it is
> possible to dynamically add bindings to the global environment by creating
> new global properties (during code evaluation). Isn't this a static scope
> violation, too?
>
> -- Šime Vidas
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