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From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: Why eval? (was: Dynamic inheritance using Scheme?)
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 20:29:04 GMT
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dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca (David Megginson) writes:

>Perhaps we could refocus this discussion by asking if there is any
>good reason why C shouldn't have an eval too, as a standard language
>feature -- then embedded languages like Tcl would be unnecessary.

C++ with eval would allow meta-classes.
Actually, just the compiler needs it.

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Lance Norskog
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