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Re: [plt-scheme] eval question
>>>>> "Shriram" == Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu> writes:
Shriram> Bruce Butterfield wrote:
>> An example would be Olin Shiver's embedded awk macro used in scsh; he
>> writes in "A Universal Scripting Framework":
>>
>> "Whenever necessary, the user can break out of the special-purpose
>> notation and express complex computations in a general-purpose
>> programming language. The Scheme embedding makes simple things easy, and
>> complex things possible..."
Shriram> This is exactly the kind of use of EVAL that makes people blanch.
Also, the scsh AWK macro doesn't use EVAL.
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