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Re: EVAL() -- is this a bug???



Is there a particular reason you're using eval?  Seems to me could
accomplish the same thing by putting a variable (str) there instead.

I don't know if it is eval, but as eval crashes on Windows 3.1, I have taken
it out of everything I do.  It is possible that the eval function is
terribly broken in other ways, but since the introduction of the crash bug
in a late beta of Netscape 2.0, I've seen its use dwindle.

-- Gordon


At 04:13 AM 3/7/96 EST, you wrote:
>If I execute the JS code below as it stands, it works correctly.  However, if I
>comment out statements 3 and 4 and enable statements 1 and 2, the code opens a
>new window, but there is no document displayed in the window.
>
>Is this related to the bug described in Andy Augustine's FAQ, which indicates
>that EVAL strings are compiled into byte codes?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Bill
>====================================================================
><head>
><script language=javascript>
>
>function doit() {
>   var str='drcr-frame.html';
> // eval('window.open("' + str + '","namer")');     // STATEMENT 1
> // eval('window.open("' + str + '","namer")');     // STATEMENT 2
>   window.open("drcr-frame.html","namer");          // STATEMENT 3
>   window.open("drcr-frame.html","namer");          // STATEMENT 4
>}
>

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