From: Neil Hodgson <neilh@...>
Date: 2000-12-22T09:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7924] Re: Ruby on .NET? A Perl Experience

http://www.activestate.com/Products/NET/Perl.html:
> ...
>      - The compiler cannot be re-entered at runtime: string eval and
>        runtime require cannot be supported in this implementation.

   This looks to be a limitation of the AS implementation of Perl. JScript
has eval and while VB.NET does not have it now, it is promised for a later
release:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/languages/clinic/scripting07142000.asp
   If that URL wraps badly, it can be found via
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/
   and then following the link to the scripting clinic.

   There may be packaging issues (a need to carry around the compiler) with
supporting dynamic evaluation but its important for many languages and a
.NET language that does not include it will be seen as an inferior version
of that language.

   Neil