On May 4, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Charlie Bowman wrote:

> I understand the ugliness of eval....but why shouldn't we use it?   
> It is
> much quicker to write, shorter to read, and easier to use.
>

Some would say ugly is reason enough. It's also slower in certain  
implementations (YARV). The less eval is used, the less it becomes  
the common case and if it's not the common case it doesn't have to be  
fast.