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evals

evals is the plural of eval.

evals is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 evals

What is evals the plural of?
Evals is the plural of eval.

Words near evals in the dictionary

  1. evalled
  2. evalling
  3. evaln.
  4. evalns.
  5. evalose
  6. evals
  7. evaluability
  8. evaluable
  9. evaluably
  10. evaluand
  11. evaluands

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