Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu> wrote: > Bruce, > > The argument is simply that you would make about any sharp tool: are > you sure you absolutely need it? A lot of times people use EVAL for > completely incorrect reasons. One consideration is that Scheme has closures and macros. These two tools will cover the majority of cases you'd use eval in a more rudimentary language. -Lex