SPUG: Self-generating code: yea or nay?

[dancerboy]

At 10:25 PM -0700 8/8/02, Richard Anderson wrote:
>Speaking of unstructured coding, I recently updated the online grep/map/sort
>tutorial and added the example below.  This got me thinking: are there any
>cases where self-generating code is "better" (in some sense) than the
>alternatives?  I feel the answer is no - can anyone provide a
>counter-example?

Depends on how narrowly you define the "self" in "self-generating". 
It's often much simpler to translate user input into perl code and 
then eval that generated code rather than parsing the input directly.

-jason

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