josdejong/mathjs

Remove support for Object literals as scope objects

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#2,165 opened on Apr 10, 2021

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Description

PR #2166 adds a warning that support for bare objects as scopes will be removed in a future release.

This issue is for the removal of support, in that future release.

const scope = {}
math.evaluate("constructor(foo) = foo", scope)

should error.

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Examine PR #2166 to understand the deprecation warning, then remove support for bare objects as scope in the evaluate function.
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