Question

Is it safe to rely on Function.prototype.toString to return a string that will parse as a valid javascript function (for user-defined functions)?

Are there any commonly-used javascript engines that deviate from the norm as far as how they represent function objects in string form?

I have seen this question, but I’m not sure if it’s asking the same thing. I don’t care if the formatting is exactly the same in all implementations or whatever, I’m more worried about some minified js engine just stripping out the whole function body…

Another related question, but not closely related enough to have a satisfying answer for this question.

Answer 1

I think it’s safe since it’s a standard. Every serious engine would do. That’s also what my project Jscex is based on. It works for all the browsers (even the legacy IE6) and Node.js. I do this kind of things for year. 🙂