EVAL

Eval

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 the eval. The input to eval is not necessarily a string; in languages that support syntactic abstractions, eval's input will consist of abstract syntactic forms.

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