From: Majorinc, Kazimir (kazimir at chem.pmf.hr) Date: Sun Jan 20 07:14:33 EST 2008 |
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Noel Welsh wrote: > Almost all uses of eval have been subsumed by other features of (PLT) Scheme,making eval very rare in 'production' code. > It is the matter of strategic decision. Eval is not necessary at all, but Lisp cannot fulfill the promise about "code=data" without almighty eval, and there is a large territory behind that. Whole Lisp community seems to be more in, say, pragmatic mood for good few decades.
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