Re^2: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be: (eval)

String eval has been hated by many (and rightly so, in most cases), but the dirty little secret is that implementing Apache::Registry would be a lot harder without it.

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Re^3: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be: (eval) by Anonymous Monk on Oct 23, 2006 at 11:56 UTC
Or more relevant, neither 'use', nor 'require' would work without string eval.	[reply]


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