From: Adelle Hartley <adelle@...>
Date: 2005-05-14T13:53:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Limitations of eval

David A. Black wrote:
> On Sun, 8 May 2005, Adelle Hartley wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been using eval to execute code fragments that I 
> fetch from a 
> > database.
> 
> (shudder :-)  But I'm sure you've heard all of that already :-)

Don't worry, it's a highly experimental prototype of something that I don't
intend to release.

> > I don't seem able to make any conditional code work correctly with 
> > eval, unless the conditinoal branch is a one liner:
<snip>
> I can't duplicate the problem:

I don't know what I was doing wrong, since it looked correct when I output
the code using puts.  Anyway, it's working now.

Thanks.

Adelle.