[whatwg] Side effects free scripts

[Andrew Fedoniouk]

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From: "liorean" <liorean at gmail.com>

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> The problem is that verifying whether function may result in side
> effects is a pain that must be delayed until runtime. You cannot know
> that methods, functions or constructors are side effect free unless
> they are host objects and readonly. You can't even assume that
>    hello+' world';
> is side effect free since the hello variable might contain an object
> with a toString method that has side effects.
> 
> So, determining if a function is side effect free needs to be done
> while that function is run.

Exactly! So to run such function in runtime you need sandbox each time. 
Quod erat demonstrandum.

Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com