The practical problem with eval() is that people overuse it. This led me to once...

cduan on Sept 9, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Eval() Isn't Quite Pure Evil

The practical problem with eval() is that people overuse it. This led me to once find a wonderful little code fragment written by a codeveloper that, when boiled down, was:

  eval(":" + symbol.to_s)

which converted a symbol to a ... symbol.