I learned about Benchmark only a short while ago. It will probably be a little tricky to factor out things that are not related to the to-eval-or-not-eval question.

In cases like this, I have learned that it's usually better to post bad code than no code at all. A small example written with Benchmark would have given repliers something to work with. They likely would have pointed out any flaws in the benchmark, and posted a modified version.

There is a danger in this, though. Sometimes the code has small unrelated problems that derail the conversation, but I think this is a small price to pay. In my experience, posts containing pertinent code almost always get better replies.

Sorry for the off-topic reply, but I think it will be useful for future posts. Hopefully you can avoid making some of the mistakes that I have made here at the Monastery. :-)

In reply to Re^3: eval string possibilities by revdiablo
in thread eval string possibilities by erix

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