> On Jul 26, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From my memory of the meetings and online discussions, strict mode was not
> meant to make static analysis significantly easier. More important was
> enabling Caja (now SES) to "use strict" and do less work, static and at
> runtime. Implementation and legacy loopholes continue to confound such
> efforts :-).
From my memory, static analysis of eval impact was definitely a motivator for
the strict mode eval semantics. Similarly, it was part of the motivation for
eliminating with.
Allen
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