From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T01:39:22+09:00
Subject: Re: ERB as a macro pre-processor?

From: Rich Morin [mailto:rdm@cfcl.com] 
> One possibility that occurred to me is to use ERB as a macro
> pre-processor.
[snip]
>     eval template.result(binding)

Out of curiosity, would there be any benefit to writing the code to a
(temporary) file and having Ruby require that file, instead of eval'ing
the resulting string?

Obviously the file version has the downside of using system resources
and delay for writing/reading the file. However, I have been tought to
have such an aversion to 'eval' in various languages that some part of
me wonders if there would be a good reason to let Ruby do things in a
'standard' way rather than using eval.