Re: eval use ?

On 9397 day of my life Majorinc wrote:
Code=data is the single most important idea of Lisp and EVAL is
what make it possible.

My point of view is just opposit. To resolve conflict, we should
define Lisp first :)

Perhaps, your statement (second part: "and EVAL is ...") is true for
original Lisp, but Lisp is evolving, and it is not true for Common
Lisp.

Lisp can exist without macros and closures, but without EVAL it is
not Lisp any more.

Perl has eval too (and many other `scripting' languages do). So
does perl have Lisp nature?

--
Ivan Boldyrev

Your bytes are bitten.
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