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Subject: Re: too bad resend isn't stand-alone anymore
From: "Leslie Mikesell" <les @ mcs . com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:45:41 -0500 (CDT)
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Cc: travis @ EvTech . com, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <ufaenjzik4b.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> from "Jason L Tibbitts III" at Sep 18, 96 04:33:24 pm

> >>>>> "TH" == Travis Hassloch x231 <travis@EvTech.com> writes:
> 
> TH> FYI: eval(`cat $cf`) is better expressed as do $cf ...
> 
> Actually it's much better expressed as "require $cf", which is what most of
> the source uses.  Some of the subsidiary programs do use the nasty eval cat
> syntax, which I'm loath to fix for 1.94 but will probably change for 1.95.

Doesn't eval give you immortality (i.e. let you continue even if the
eval'd expression dies)?

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com


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