That's a good point.  Does such usage cause some failure, or is it a  
performance issue?  I would think that prior generations' code  
(classes + classloader(s)) would get GC'd as necessary -- or is the  
number of created classloaders so significant as to hit some serious  
limitation?

- Chas

On Mar 4, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Straszheim wrote:

> Many people consider the use of eval in "normal" code to be bad  
> style.  However, there are times when it is justified, such as  
> genetic programming or dynamic code loading.  In these cases Clojure  
> falls down without the classloader trick.

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