> 2) people whose are writing code to dynamically construct the source code > of a function that will be created via eval are probably think about > different issues than. I hypothesize that they are more likely to place the > eval in a block that conditionalized by a if statement.
Just to inform the discussion, some use cases for eval that I have seen: 1) REPL (dicey, users have to deal with it) 2) JS source loaders (dicey, we're desperate) 3) Domain Specific Languages compiled into JS, eg domplate in Firebug, calculators. (solid) Conditional compilation per se isn't a common use case because generating or downloading the code will probably be more expensive than compiling it. jjb _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
