String eval is often used for dynamic code generation. For instance, Moose
uses it heavily, to generate inlined versions of accessors and constructors,
which speeds code up at runtime by a significant amount. String eval is not
without its issues however - it's difficult to control the scope it's used in
(which determines which variables are in scope inside the eval), and it can
be quite slow, especially if doing a large number of evals.
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Eval::Closure attempts to solve both of those problems. It provides an
eval_closure function, which evals a string in a clean environment, other
than a fixed list of specified variables. It also caches the result of the
eval, so that doing repeated evals of the same source, even with a different
environment, will be much faster (but note that the description is part of
the string to be evaled, so it must also be the same (or non-existent) if
caching is to work properly).
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