Eval considered

Using eval is almost always a bad idea. It's a crutch for bad designs, it opens giant security holes in your code, and in practice it's almost never needed to get actual stuff done.

>>17

"mutable globals are evil!!1"

Faggot quotation mark goes to >>>/g/
Also FP and other declarative paradigms don't consider mutability something evil (wannabes who never actually write anything nontrivial in HASKAL do), they just like their mutations explicit and controlled.