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Re:Is Scheme as good as Common Lisp? by procrastitron on Friday August 31, 2007 @03:50PM (#48915)
I'm not familiar with the arguments against using eval. Can you enlighten me as to why it would be a bad practice?
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Re:Is Scheme as good as Common Lisp? by edw on Friday August 31, 2007 @05:29PM (#48981)
Because EVAL is an atomic bomb, and there's no need to use it when a garrote would more elegantly perform the task at hand.
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