From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T01:53:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ERB as a macro pre-processor?

At 1:39 AM +0900 10/12/06, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> ... 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.

I think that the basic concern with eval is that spurious
code might be brought into the program.  "require" has the
same problem, if the file has been auto-generated.

-r
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