How to execute "eval" without writing "eval" in JavaScript
- by Infinity
Here's the deal,
we have a big JS library that we want to compress, but YUI compressor doesn't fully compress the code if it finds an "eval" statement, out of fear that it will break something else.
That's great and all, but we know exactly what is getting eval'd, so we don't want it to get conservative because there's an eval statement in MooTools JSON.decode
So basically the question is, is there any alternative (maybe creative) way of writing a expression that returns the eval function?
I tried a few, but no dice:
window['eval'](stuff);
window['e'+'val'](stuff);
// stuff runs in the global scope, we need local scope
this['eval'](stuff);
// this.eval is not a function
(new Function( "with(this) { return " + '(' + stuff + ')' + "}"))()
// global scope again
Any ideas?
Thx
