>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:
Bill> I was told eval was "wrong on multiple levels".
I should elaborate.
Using "eval" here means that you *then* have to be careful about whitespace
quoting. For example, if my $HOME had a space in it,
EDITOR="$HOME/bin/superemacs" would be broken if you add the extra eval, since
the whitespace would be treated as a delimeter on the second lexing. I'd have
to figure out how to set EDITOR with the right quotes or backwhacks in it to
undo the effect of your eval.
Also, eval treats data as code, and if for some reason this should end up in a
setuid environment (perhaps as a web application), eval would generate a
trivially accessed gigantic security hole.
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