Thanks for the explanation,
--Peter
On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 9:37:03 AM UTC-7, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
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> On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 11:28:47 AM UTC-4, Peter Simon wrote:
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>> It seems that
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>> include_string("[1,2,3]")
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>> also works. Is there any reason to prefer one or the other of these
>> techniques over the other?
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> eval and parse give you more low-level control (see the docs for eval and
> parse for more options), and you can also look at (or modify) the parsed
> syntax tree if desired.
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> include_string is nicer if you want to parse and eval a whole bunch of
> statements just as if they appeared in an included file. You can even
> supply a "filename" argument so that the "filename" and line number will be
> reported in backtraces. e.g. this is what IJulia does when it evaluates
> code cells in the Jupyter interface.
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