On Thursday 22 April 2010 14:17:15 Base wrote: Hi!
> say i have a string that contains a form: > > "(+ 1 1)" > > I want to actually execute this. How do you do this? I thought that > eval would be able to handle this but apparently am misunderstanding > what eval does. `eval' evals a form, so first you have to parse that string. But that's exactly what `read-string' does: ,---- | user> (read-string "(+ 1 2)") | (+ 1 2) | user> (eval (read-string "(+ 1 2)")) | 3 `---- Bye, Tassilo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
