Re^2: Suggestions for design of a config/rules file

I think the author of the OP can avoid having to use eval. Take a look at Coruscate's response to using require as c like #include?.

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Re^3: Suggestions for design of a config/rules file by halley (Prior) on Jun 09, 2004 at 18:11 UTC
By `eval`, I mean any of the class of Perl routines which ultimately do an `eval` anyway. Both `require FILE` and `do FILE` ultimately do an evaluation of the file contents. The rest is syntactic sugar. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]