From: llothar@... (Lothar Scholz) Date: 2004-06-12T00:04:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Introducing myself and my interest in ruby Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote in message news:<40C92E6E.9040708@activehitconsulting.com>... > A compiler could attempt to translate evals into other constructs. I > think most are simple enought to do that. No. Simply grep through the 1.8.1 standard library and you see that it is used a lot in non trivial situations.