This library is a modified version of Raphael Graf’s ActionScript Expression Parser. When I wrote the JavaScript Function Plotter, I wanted a better alternative to using JavaScript’s eval function.

For this, Mozilla rewrote all use of eval-like functions from system privileged contexts and the parent process in the codebase of its Firefox web browser. Besides this, the company also added eval() ...

Mozilla rolled out protection measures to block code injection attacks in the Firefox web browser, with the attack surface being reduced by removing eval()-like functions and inline scripts ...