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aeval

aeval is the alternative form of eval.

Meaning of eval

Verb

eval (third-person singular simple present evals, present participle (US) evaling or (UK) evalling, simple past and past participle (US) evaled or (UK) evalled)

  1. 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

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Origin of aeval

Derived from Latin aevum (“lifetime, age, eternity”) + -al.

Questions about aeval

What is aeval the alternative form of?
Aeval is the alternative form of eval.

Words near aeval in the dictionary

  1. aett
  2. aettir
  3. aetts
  4. AETX
  5. AEV
  6. aeval
  7. aeviternal
  8. aeviternities
  9. aeviternity
  10. AEVs
  11. aevum

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