Re: [FWP] syntax barriers?

[Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.fi>]

On Sun, 13 May 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> 
> similar problem: the eval (that is hidden inside the "do $path" as well)
> si the one thing that shouldn't be allowed in a solution. obviously,
> seperating the string into many substrings (which is possible since each
> eval should be a valid BLOCK) and eval'ing them seperately would always work
> - however, then I wouldn't need to ask ;)

I think multiple evals -- one way or another -- are the only thing that
will work for any input.  After all, the user code might contain an
unclosed string or heredoc, or maybe POD.  Or use a source filter.

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