Evaluation Function
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See: Meta-Circular Evaluator, Programming Language, Subroutine, Expression (Programming), Return Value, Lisp (Programming Language), Apply.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eval Retrieved:2015-2-13.
- In some programming languages,
eval
is a function which evaluates a string as though it were an expression and returns a result; in others, it executes multiple lines of code as though they had been included instead of the line including theeval
. The input toeval
is not necessarily a string; in languages that support syntactic abstractions (like Lisp),eval
's input will consist of abstract syntactic forms.Eval and apply are instances of meta-circular evaluators, interpreters of a language that can be invoked within the language itself.
- In some programming languages,