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evaling

evaling is the present participle 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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Questions about evaling

What is evaling the present participle of?
Evaling is the present participle of eval.

Words near evaling in the dictionary

  1. evaginations
  2. evah
  3. eval
  4. evaled
  5. EVALI
  6. evaling
  7. EVALIs
  8. evalled
  9. evalling
  10. evaln.
  11. evalns.

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