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Re:Is eval evil? Just-in-time compiling by sifoobar on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:44PM (#18489122)
I'm still holding off adding eval() to Snigl [0]. Not because of JIT clashes, since it is a straight interpreter; but because of the can of worms it opens. The thing is that I have to compile code in some kind of context, and depending on what the code says, it may or may not be safe to throw the compiled code away once done. Which means that I'd have to deal with a growing mountain of compiled code or complicate the design to support a feature that's mostly the wrong answer.

https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl

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