Re: your mail

• Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:21:42 PST
• From:
  Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
• cc: moo-cows.PARC@xerox.com
• In-Reply-to: "Christopher Unkel's message of \"Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:09:25 PST\" <Pine.SUN.3.91.960313180300.13683D-100000@ren.us.itd.umich.edu>\,,"

Christopher Unkel writes:
> > Use eval(), as Andy pointed out.
> 
> Using eval() for this allows the supposed "literal" to do things like 
> call verbs, built-ins, etc., no matter how it is passed into eval.

True, but minor in my experience.  Anyhow, the lack of something like
`fromliteral()' is not a bug and it's not a five-minute feature add, so I won't
be adding it.  At the risk of sounding like a broken record, maybe the next
maintainer...

	Pavel

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