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3 points by okplus 6169 days ago | link | parent

ActionScript does have an eval function: http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscri...

Edit: looks like it may be somewhat limited. Just names of variables. It doesn't actually eval beyond looking in the symbol table...



2 points by nostrademons 6168 days ago | link

Yeah, it was a deliberate design decision by Macromedia. They wanted to keep the VM small, so they deliberately left out anything that smacked of a runtime compiler. Eval, regexps. Though I heard regexps may have come back in AS3...

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