<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 4, 2014, at 6:00 AM, Neil Van Dyke <<a href="mailto:neil@neilvandyke.org">neil@neilvandyke.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Matthew Flatt wrote at 08/04/2014 02:40 AM:<br><blockquote type="cite">While he didn't say so explicitly, I don't think that Neil is worried<br>about the implementation of `eval` within Racket. After all, `eval` is<br>at the heart of the implementation, and any program that you give to<br>Racket is going through `eval` whether or not the program calls the<br>`eval` function.<br></blockquote><br>Correct. I breathe oxygen constantly, without thinking about it, but I'd never use a fuel-air explosive to mow my lawn.<br></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Off topic but I couldn't resist; see picture below from a recent trip to a workshop in Germany, where they use flamethrowers to burn off grass :-) </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img id="59365248-3717-4958-9c9b-fc4d8f35af7f" height="1296" width="968" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:628630AA-0A80-453E-966D-980618EABB13@ccs.neu.edu"></div></body></html>