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String eval == source code generation != eval { (Score:1)
eval-block isn't the same thing as eval-string and you probably shouldn't think of them as related. The former is used when you're creating new source code on the fly and want to run it. The latter is when you want to trap die().
It's the same word but they aren't related. They share the variable $@/$EVAL_ERROR and both trap die() but that's incidental.
Replacements for string-eval are often dispatch tables, curried functions, closures, that kind of thing. The following is an example of something that can b
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