On Oct 20, 4:30 pm, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > One language's "eval" isn't the same as another's. E.g. there's a big > difference between Lisp's "eval" (which takes an s-expression as an > argument) and an "eval" which takes a string as an argument. > > The former is fine; the latter should be prohibited by law, and preferably > by international treaty.
The ability to eval a string can be useful in generating code from a template at run time, among other things. Of course, those who want to cram tainted ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'' input from GOD knows where into an eval statement, should just be shot, hung, drawn, and quartered - no need for a legal opinion before hand. There is no such thing as a feature that is absolutely always wrong to use, just brain damaged people to use it inappropriately ;). Just look at the TOPS family... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
