From: Jonathan Wills <runningwild@...>
Date: 2009-02-07T04:26:01+09:00
Subject: Re: eval statement


> why do you want to use eval?
> eval is evil and in most cases not needed in Ruby

I want my program to run user-supplied ruby code, and eval is the only 
thing I know of that can do this.  If there is a better way I would be 
willing to try it.  I know in python that the exec statement is 
considered 'evil', but all that means is you have to be careful.
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