Powerful Code Eval Discussion

In CustomCollationOrder the discussion turned to ways to allow "external" code snippets in a more secure or controllable way. An alternative was a custom expression evaluator library, but since an interpreter typically already has an expression evaluator, it seems like unnecessary duplication of parts. A more powerful EVAL would could facilitate TableOrientedProgramming and other "external code" usage, such as expressions entered by power-users who we otherwise don't want touching the application source code.

An expression evaluator could have an allow and/or deny of the following:

Variable scope:

• None
• current function (of Eval)
• parent
• caller
• current name-space
• selected name-space(s) per list
• global

Operations:

• Specified list
• Basic built-in
• Specified library and/or name-space

Specifying time and space (memory) limitations and/or recursion depth may also be warranted.

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