Re: [bug-gawk] eval in gawk as a regular command

[Peng Yu]

> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 07:06:29AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> > Why not, considering that many other languages have eval? This can
> > dramatically increase the expression power of a language.
>
> In addition to Arnold's points, I think it's worth mentioning that
> gawk already has the ability to call functions indirectly and the
> ability to access variables indirectly through the SYMTAB array. So
> there are already some safer language facilities that allow you
> to execute code that is a function of the input.

Could you show me some examples of how to mimic some feature of eval()
using the features that you mentioned? Thanks.

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Regards,
Peng