String2List: odd function

[Michael Hudson]

"Isidor" <rodisi01 at my-deja.com> writes:

> When I read these messages, the first thing I thought was: "wow! 
> *that's* what exec and eval do?!" I had read about them in the 
> documentation, and I suspected that they were important, but I 
> couldn't figure out what the heck they really did. A few unsuccessful 
> experiments didn't help much either. Well, now I know a little more. 
> However, I suspect that this use is not among the common uses for 
> which exec and eval were designed. Would you be willing to reply with 
> some examples of how you use these functions normally? What are they 
> *really* used for? (As I collect more of these examples from others 
> and from my own banging around, they will go on a web page w. 
> credits, of course, to the example providers...and then someday...I 
> will join the PSA...and then...and then...)

This article:

http://x39.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=453014340

contains a moderately long example of using `exec' I posted to the
list a while back.

Have fun!
Michael