[Javascript] Good vs. Eval (was Form validation)

[Chris Tifer]

I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean call a function dynamically?

I can't think of a good reason to do that, but I guess it could be needed in
some scenario. To me, this goes back to "There's always some other way..."

:)

Chris Tifer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Brunone" <peter at brunone.com>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:48 AM
Subject: [Javascript] Good vs. Eval (was Form validation)


>
>    No problem; just start a new thread!
>
>    What if you want to run a function based on a string?
>
> -Peter B.
>
> Original Message:
> >From: "Chris Tifer" <christ at saeweb.com>
>
> >This is going off-topic, but for some reason I just hate eval(). I don't
> >believe I've ever found a need to use it.  There's always some other
way...
> >
> >Chris Tifer
>
>
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