From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-11-14T21:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: "once" meta-method without "module_eval" (Pickaxe)

Greg Weeks wrote:
> My impression is that Ruby meta-programming used to lean heavily on
> evaluating strings as code, but is moving away from that.  (Good!)

I have just one question: why is that good? Is it just that avoiding 
evaluation of strings somehow "feels cleaner" or is there actually a 
justification for that?

If you rememer that load/require basically has the effect of eval'ing 
the content of a file, string eval doesn't feel so evil anymore.

Daniel