"Brad Fults" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 4/4/06, Web APIs Issue Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A.2) Define using a TimerListener interface which is meant only for
other languages, while ECMAScript >only actually allows strings or
functions to be passed.
I (and others) strongly advise against specifying a timer interface
that accepts strings of code as executable input.
It can continue to exist as an implemented behavior, but as it
essentially uses eval() for its functionality, it should be strongly
discouraged, and certainly not officially specified.
As eval is a fully conformant part of the ES specification, and is
universally supported (in 262 implementations) it is completely harmless,
and should be included in any specification as so many pages rely on the
behaviour.
For more, see: http://xkr.us/js/eval
You may want to raise some the code maintenance issues of eval, as
performance is rarely relevant to ES web authors, so your evil constraints
are only relevant to a minority of scripts.
Cheers,
Jim.
