eval / toliteral safety question

• Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:44:12 PDT
• From:
  "Seth I. Rich" <sir@po.cwru.edu>
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Is there EVER a circumstace where
  eval("return " + toliteral(x) + ";")[2]
would not equal x?  Can anyone think of a situation in which this would
represent an unsafe operation?  I've been trying to think of a value for
x for which this expression could have side effects, but I haven't come
up with anything yet, and I suspect I won't.

(See, I shut up on MOO-Cows for a month or so, but I'M BACK BWAHAHAHAcough)

Seth / Blackbriar
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Rabbits on walls, no problem.    a tear of true repentance.

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