Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> Anyway, my request isn't based on how easy or hard it would be to 
>> implement,
>> but rather on how useful it would be to me.  In the past year, I've run
>> across more and more situations where I would want this.
>>
>>
> 
> Name some. Maybe we don't need an eval()-like function, what we need is 
> other features so that we never ever need to use eval.

In my case I was using POV-Ray as a graphing calculator and wanted the 
resultant image to show both the text and graphic form of the function. 
   I wanted to only have to enter a function in SDL once, so I used a 
string, and figured out the include-file-method as a workaround to 
convert that string to something plot-able.  I asked on the newsgroups 
if there was a better way... wishing.
Charles

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