On 11 May 2011 23:15, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote: > "Direct eval" (or the eval operator, as Oliver refers to it) is a way to > (mostly) statically identify eval calls and to do special case processing to > make the caller environment information available for eval processing. > "indirect evals" are just regular function calls and not special > environment information is passed or otherwise made available. So, the > built-in eval function when indirectly involved is limited to using the > global environment. > This has nothing to do with strict mode.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. To clarify: my follow-up question was only tangentially related to the question of direct calls -- it mainly was about how eval inherits strict mode. The one bit where these questions are somewhat related is the "(mostly)" bit in your reply. Is there a reason for this "mostly", which, I would argue, is a form of dynamic scoping? /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
