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pear-dev
Re: [PEAR-DEV] On the use of eval() in XML_Query2XML
by Alexey Borzov other posts by this author
Oct 30 2006 4:23AM messages near this date
RE: [PEAR-DEV] On the use of eval() in XML_Query2XML | [PEAR-DEV] final alpha version of PEAR 1.5.0
Hi,

Lukas Feiler wrote:
>  recently I stumbled across the EvalForbiddance RFC

The RFC was not accepted, it wasn't even called for votes. Therefore you aren't 
of course required to conform to it.

It is not a good idea to abuse eval(), though, but if you aren't using it with 
user input and take measures to properly escape the strings, it is mostly OK.

>  (http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=288). It turns out that
>  XML_Query2XML (I'm the lead developer for that package) uses eval() in a
>  couple of places:

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