I think you have missed "quite" from the title, and this bit from the article: I hear two complaints most often when this talk comes up. The first is that eval

I think you have missed "quite" from the title, and this bit from the article: I hear two complaints most often when this talk comes up. The first is that eval() is dangerous. That usually means that we could take in some malicious code from a user and pass it into eval() where it would destroy our hard drive, or worse. Only, I'm not doing that. I made the variables here and user input is not involved. I think we're safe this time.