From fd70d30a9cde6ddb46487035e57075e2ace19f15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jorge Chamorro Bieling <jorge@jorgechamorro.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:39:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make "node --eval" eval in the global scope.

---
 src/node.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/node.js b/src/node.js
index 8ebe7b14d8c..678e1362810 100644
--- a/src/node.js
+++ b/src/node.js
@@ -601,7 +601,8 @@ if (process.argv[1]) {
 
 } else if (process._eval) {
     // -e, --eval
-    if (process._eval) console.log(eval(process._eval));
+    var indirectEval= eval; // so the eval happens in global scope.
+    if (process._eval) console.log(indirectEval(process._eval));
 } else {
     // REPL
   module.requireNative('repl').start();