From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-06-12T00:08:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing myself and my interest in ruby

il 11 Jun 2004 07:59:05 -0700, llothar@web.de (Lothar Scholz) ha
scritto::

>Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@activehitconsulting.com> 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.

yet, there are places where it may be avoided, say, in tkfont.rb:
 obj.instance_eval{ initialize(src) }
maybe could become:
 obj.send(:initialize,src)

There should be interest in this kind of changes, apart from
compilation problems?