Question

After updating to Firefox 7, I am getting the following error:

function statement requires a name

This particular functions is defined as

fun = eval("function (item) { //Function body }");

If I rewrite it as:

fun = eval("function view(item) { //Function body }");

The error does not show up any more, but the program still does not work.

Ps.- I know that evaluating a string is not a good idea. This is a legacy application that I have to fix in which some functions are downloaded from a database as strings on demand.

Answer 1

Wrap it in brackets

eval("(function (item) { alert('hello'); })");

But that doesn’t make sense as it does nothing. Maybe you want:

eval("(function () { alert('hello'); })()");

Or

eval("var func = function (item) { };");