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It is really funny how people are fixated to "eval is evil" and they'll do anything to avoid it, even re-writing the whole eval-functionality..

diynevala
– diynevala

2014-09-12 10:52:22 +00:00
Commented Sep 12, 2014 at 10:52
Is consensus this trick is a safe method turning string into JSON object? I could use this as no additional js imports are needed.

Whome
– Whome

2014-10-13 10:48:16 +00:00
Commented Oct 13, 2014 at 10:48
1

ANY approach using eval or Function is equally vulnerable

Slai
– Slai

2018-06-03 12:32:30 +00:00
Commented Jun 3, 2018 at 12:32
1

undefined; function bye() {...} bye();

Salvioner
– Salvioner

2019-01-22 12:41:47 +00:00
Commented Jan 22, 2019 at 12:41

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