May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
172 pages
4h 54m
English
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eval Is Evil
The eval function and its relatives (Function, setTimeout, and setInterval)
provide access to the JavaScript compiler. This is sometimes useful, but in most
cases it indicates the presence of extremely bad coding. The eval function is the most misused feature of
JavaScript.