I avoid eval out of habit. Even if you make sure that you don't eval user input and keep the evaluated code minimal, it's still annoying to debug warnings like "Argument isn't numeric at eval 2718, line 314".

Though you're right that my code looks a bit obfuscated.

it's still annoying to debug warnings like "Argument isn't numeric at eval 2718, line 314".

Note that my code does nothing but load a module. Everything is calculate beforehand. To avoid problems such as the one you mention, calculate everything in advance or move the calculations into a sub called from the evaluated code.

There's something very wrong if you're evaluating 314 lines.