Stephen Chang wrote at 04/26/2014 01:27 PM:
This blog post by Matthew Flatt provides some more intuition for
racket's eval:
http://blog.racket-lang.org/2011/10/on-eval-in-dynamic-languages-generally.html
Good article.
For educational and research purposes, I think people should feel free
to use eval.
For professional/production purposes, I think a good rule of thumb is
that you shouldn't use eval unless you know why it's the best way for
your task. (Hint: It almost never is.) And even if you know how to use
eval properly and safely, consider that developers who come after you on
the system might not. (I might have a brand-new real-world horror story
on this theme.) When in doubt, don't use eval.
Neil V.
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