On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:18 PM, spqr <[email protected]> wrote: > maybe my question should have been "why does JavaScript have eval()?" ;-)
I think a lot of people have wondered the same thing. Yes, it has its uses, but at this point, I don't know of any that aren't better served using some other mechanism. eval() has weird optimization-destroying semantics that cannot ever be changed, due to the fact that JavaScript must be backwards compatible forever. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
