[Chicago-talk] Where'd I come from?

[Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov]

> Why are you using string evals?  What's wrong with:

eval {
  require 'whatever';
  foo();
}

Er, I'm not. Its 'legacy' production code which we can't really change 
(and this'd be way down on the list of changes we'd like to make - its a 
bit of a mess ;-).  The string evals are just something we shake our heads 
at and live w/ ... and don't get me started on the 'package'-ing.  Worse 
than not using it is a hit or miss mix of using it. We see them ending up 
prepending main:: quite a lot (lots of globals here) 'just in case' ....

Thanks.

a

Andy Bach
Systems Mangler
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