Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ksr!dgg From: dgg@ksr.com (David Grubbs) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Rampant eval's (was Re: Perl Neophyte Needs Help) Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 90 19:59:27 GMT References: <8504@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1990Jun27.101219.11357@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <15614@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Sender: news@ksr.UUCP Organization: Kendall Square Research, Waltham, MA Lines: 13 In-reply-to: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM's message of 27 Jun 90 05:21:35 GMT In article <1990Jun27.101219.11357@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Andrew.Vignaux@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andrew Vignaux) writes: >I've always been a little wary about using the "eval-the-loop" trick >because it will probably mean that the whole perl compiler/interpreter >will get sucked into my executable when (not if :-) a "perl to C >translator" comes along. [Note: ispell thinks that "eval" is "evil" >-- so it's not just my opinion :-] I can't resist: No, ispell does not think "eval" is "evil"; it thinks the only alternative to "eval" is "evil". -- David G. Grubbs Kendall Square Research Corp. {harvard,uunet}!ksr!dgg dgg@ksr.com