Eval?

[davidchase]

I found your autocomplete via ngModules its pretty sweet! & easy to use..

But my question is, what was the reasoning behind using eval when you can just use bracket notation instead and achieve the same results instead of sprinkling eval around?

Thanks -David

[toutpt]

+1 you should not use eval.

[stevenharman]

From what I can tell, the eval allows arbitrarily long chains of "dot notation". If we had list comprehensions, or by brute-forcing a for loop, the same thing could be achieved by split('.')-ing and then using bracket notation.

[darylrowland]

Yeah I agree, had meant to remove the eval but completely forgot it was still in there. Will fix it tomorrow. Cheers guys.

Daryl.

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On 4 Feb 2014, at 21:32, Steven Harman [email protected] wrote:

From what I can tell, the eval allows arbitrarily long chains of "dot notation". If we had list comprehensions, or by brute-forcing a for loop the same thing could be achieved by split('.')-ing and then using bracket notation.

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[davidchase]

Yeah I was just curious because in my implementation I subbed out the eval with bracket notation and all is well :)