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

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.


"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

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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.