On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Mike Samuel wrote: >> In SpiderMonkey implementation (built into Firefox, Thunderbird), up to >> version 1.7, it is possible to pass a calling context as a second argument >> for eval function. > > This violated closures in abominable ways, but it could be made to > respect closures.
That was fixed a while ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442333 (more fun in followup bug). > If that second argument were explicitly null, then using an object > containing only the builtins as defined at interpreter start, would > get these semantics. Mozilla has evalInSandbox built-ins. We've talked about them, but no one has produced a strawman based on this work. The module loader API: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:module_loaders provides enough functionality. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
