[Phoenix-pm] perl eval and the No Execute chips

Scott Walters scott at
Wed Sep 13 10:37:06 PDT 2006


Stops executing, starts parsing/compiling again, and then executes the
result of that again.  I've said it before and I'll say it again...
95% of the time people eval, they really want a closure instead.

-scott

On  0, Andrew Johnson <andypm at exiledplanet.org> wrote:
> 
>    On 9/12/06, Brock <[1]awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
>    
>    <snip>
>    
>    
>      But that's a bit of a side track. Really, let's expand the question
>      to
>      this -- How does "eval" work?
>      
>    That's easy:  it's MAGIC!!  :-)
>    [aj]
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:awwaiid at thelackthereof.org

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