From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-10-10T21:19:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Poll on Eval in Ruby.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:10 AM, lith <minilith@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you want to contribute few seconds, the poll is
>> on my blog, on the top of the right column.
>
> Are we talking about
>
>    a = 'foo'
>    b = 'a + "bar"'
>    eval "'yummy ' + #{b} * 2"
>
> or about
>
>    class A
>        def initialize
>            @x = "foo"
>        end
>    end
>
>    A.new.instance_eval {@x}

I thought we were talking about all eval version (eval, instance_eval,
class_eval, etc) so I answered the one that was "has it's place" or
something like that.

If we are talking exclusively about pure eval, I agree with David, I
almost never use it.

Jesus.