Re: eval / toliteral safety question

• Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:42:16 PDT
• From:
  cadams@weather.brockport.edu (Chuck Adams)
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• In-Reply-to: "<199606111344.JAA09446@rabbit.INS.CWRU.Edu> from \"Seth I. Rich\" at Jun 11, 96 06:44:12 am; Tue"

Seth I. Rich drew these hieroglyphs:
> 
> 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)

I can't think of anything, but why do you want an identity function?

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