From: Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T08:10:00+09:00
Subject: Re: attr :<symbol>?

Phil Tomson wrote:
> Two main issues come to mind:
> 
> 1) security.  What is someone malicious code that gets eval'ed? 
> "system(\"rm -f *\")"
> 
> 2) debugging. It can be difficult to debug code that depends on eval.  
> Errors get reported, but you've got to match line numbers of the string 
> passed in to the eval function and this can be difficult.

3) editing.  If your editor understands Ruby syntax, it will highlight 
and indent the code in a block passed to define_method.  But editing 
code encased in quoted strings makes your editor dumb.

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