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by anonyfox 3785 days ago
nitpick: in Javascript you can actually call functionName.toString() and get the implementation. AFAIK angular did this trick to implement their dependency injection mechanism.
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Yeah, but that's evil. And even with the source code, the only decidable properties of Turing complete systems are trivial. (Eg you can't even tell in general whether a given function will eventually return or loop forever from the source.)
That doesn't show the actual values in the closure. Which are subject to change anyway.