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Re:Throw away code by gowld on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:57PM (#24595250)
REPL == eval.
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Re:Throw away code by mumblemumble on Friday September 25, 2020 @09:31PM (#24595699)
eval is useful for making a repl, but there are languages with a repl and no eval (Haskell comes to mind), and there are languages like PHP that have eval but no (built-in) repl.
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