Is it possible to restrict the scope of a javascript function?

Question

Suppose I have a variables in the global scope.

Suppose I wish to define a function which I can guarantee will not have access to this variable, is there a

Answer 1

A little late, but maybe it will help you a bit

function RestrictFunction(params) {

    params = ( params == undefined ? {} : params );
    var scope = ( params.scope == undefined ? window : params.scope );
    var data = ( params.data == undefined ? {} : params.data );
    var script = ( params.script == undefined ? '' : params.script );
    if (typeof params.script == 'function') {
        script = params.script.toString();
        script = script.substring(script.indexOf("{") + 1, script.lastIndexOf("}"));
        }

    // example: override native functions that on the white list

    var setTimeout = function(_function,_interval) {

        // this is important to prevent the user using `this` in the function and access the DOM
        var interval = scope.setTimeout( function() { 
            RestrictFunction({
                scope:scope,
                data:data,
                script:_function
                });
            } , _interval );

        // Auto clear long user intervals
        scope.setTimeout( function() {
            scope.clearTimeout(interval);
            } , 60*1000 );

        return interval;
        }       

    // example: create custom functions

    var trace = function(str) {
        scope.console.log(str);
        }   

    return (function() {

        // remove functions, objects and variables from scope

        var queue = [];
        var WhiteList = [
            "Blob","Boolean","Date","String","Number","Object","Array","Text","Function",
            "unescape","escape","encodeURI","encodeURIComponent","parseFloat","parseInt",
            "isNaN","isFinite","undefined","NaN",
            "JSON","Math","RegExp",
            "clearTimeout","setTimeout"
            ];

        var properties = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(scope);
        for (var k = 0; k

Example of use

// dummy to test if we can access the DOM
var dummy = function() {

    this.notify = function(msg) {
        console.log( msg );
        };

    }

var result = RestrictFunction({

    // Custom data to pass to the user script , Accessible via `this`
    data:{
        prop1: 'hello world',
        prop2: ["hello","world"],
        prop3: new dummy()
        },

    // User custom script as string or function
    script:function() {

        trace( this );

        this.msg = "hello world";
        this.prop3.notify(this.msg);

        setTimeout( function() {
            trace(this); 
            } , 10 );

        trace( data );
        trace( params );
        trace( scope );
        trace( window );
        trace( XMLHttpRequest );
        trace( eval );

        return "done!"; // not required to return value...

        },

    }); 

console.log( "result:" , result );