Please don't consider every usage of the term "eval" to be what is discussed in this article. Perl has two forms of eval, one which takes a string and executes

Please don't consider every usage of the term "eval" to be what is discussed in this article. Perl has two forms of eval, one which takes a string and executes it as code (the "bad" one) and one which takes a block of code (used for exception handling) which is parsed only once (essentially at compile time). http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/eval.html http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/eval.html