eval
adj/ˈiːvəl/
Etymology Derived from Latin aevum (“lifetime, age, eternity”) + -al.
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Obsolete Relating to time or duration.
eval
verbUS /ˈiː.væl/
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Of software To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.
- Of course, it's quite pointless to eval a piece of code that you know at compile time ...1997, Sriram Srinivasan, Andy Oram, Steve Talbott, Advanced Perl Programming:
- Derived terms
- read-eval-print loop