mfikes answered this on the clojurescript slack channel
mfikes: You can get around this by, for example doing `(let [geval js/eval]
> (geval "function abc(){}"))`
> @phronmophobic Yeah, I think you are right. Planck specifically doesn't do
> that in order to fix, for example
> https://github.com/mfikes/planck/issues/543 (see the bit at the very bottom
> of that bug thread) (edited)
This is an odd behavior but it is due to how javascript behaves:
mfikes: By binding, `" the eval code is not being evaluated by a direct
> call"
> Then 1. a. applies here
> http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-10.4.2
> In short, it is an ECMAScript 5 feature
On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 1:32:57 AM UTC+2, Sonny To wrote:
>
> clojuresript repl:
> stigmergy.loader> (js/eval "function abc(){}")
> nil
> stigmergy.loader> (js/abc)
> #object[ReferenceError ReferenceError: abc is not defined]
>
>
> nil
>
> javascript repl:
> eval("function abc(){}")
> 01:30:26.689 undefined
> 01:30:33.614 abc()
> 01:30:33.624 undefined
>
> why can't I define a functiion using js/eval but can using eval in
> javascript?
>
> however this works:
>
> stigmergy.loader> (js/eval "foobar123 = function(){}")
> #object[foobar123]
> stigmergy.loader> (js/foobar123)
>
>
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