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0 pointsDanWaterworth13y ago0 comments

> You're right that a closure only needs to contain the variables that are closed over.

You would think so, but this assumption fails in the presence of eval.

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Sure, but that's the only exception, right? If there's no eval call in the function that requires the closure it's easily determined what variables don't need to be included, right?

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