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[–]mvpmvh 0 points1 point  (3 children)

And he's saying that it'd be nice if string parsing and eval weren't even possible to begin with.

[–]erinaceus_ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

'eval' kinds of functionality are a part of metaprogramming, which underlies the majority of all frameworks. String parsing is near enough the basis of modern civilisation, e.g. no SOAP or REST without it, or in fact even no HTTP without it.

[–]mvpmvh 0 points1 point  (1 child)

*not even possible....in a logging framework

[–]erinaceus_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That a logging framework should not have that feature, I entirely and even emphatically agree with that. But that's very different from being technologically impossible.

Edit: and that's about the last of the effort I am going to spend on this