Re: Eval - Pro's and Con's (was Re: Dylan rather than CL -- why?)

[Bob Kerns <rwk@world.std.com>]

    Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 18:04:52 GMT
    From: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk>
    
    > While this is true, sometimes one wants to allow a rule to given actual code
    > to execute, thus temporarily losing some of the interpretter/search engine's
    > overhead.  Eval is one of the cleanest ways to do this I know of.
    
    I'm not sure what you mean.  If I have a rule like this:
    
    (defrule rule-1
      (if <conditions>
          then <Lisp code>))
    
    then I can handle it as above.

Right.  After all, if you want to lose the interpretter/search engine's
overhead, you certainly want to lose EVAL's overhead, and run compiled!