Good point.

I vaguely recall of some discussion for addition of a compile time option to specify that you won't be using eval. The idea may seem appealing, but eval is eval, and s///e is eval, and there are tons of other uses for eval, and lots of modules use eval, that pretty quickly the potential optimization that might be gained by that option (at least for perl5) disappear pretty quickly (that's how I see it).

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