No, actually, you literally have to call eval as a function called eval if you want to get the local lexicals. See sections 10.4.2 and 15.1.2.1.1 of the ECMASc

No, actually, you literally have to call eval as a function called eval if you want to get the local lexicals. See sections 10.4.2 and 15.1.2.1.1 of the ECMAScript standard, or try it out: > (function () { var x = 5; eval("console.log(x)"); })() 5 > (function () { var x = 5; var e = eval; e("console.log(x)"); })() ReferenceError: x is not defined