I don't think you are right - it does compiles without it.
After more thinking my guess is that eval is used to combine extend
and reify in the same function. Let's see if somebody else could shed
a light on this.

On Nov 18, 12:45 pm, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My speculation is that the eval is required in the case that commons-logger
> is not in the classpath.  The code wouldn't compile without it.

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