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rjbrown
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14 years ago

create or overwrite functions with Eval()

Is it possible to use Eval() to create a function? Say I want to make a way of live-patching an app, by bringing down some code via http and then running it with Eval(). Can I actually create a new ...
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GPF
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14 years ago
a$="goto Hello"

eval(a$)

goto nothello

Hello:
  print "hello"
  goto endhello
nothello:

  print "not hello"

endhello:
stop


This seems to always print "not hello" on the console. Am I not calling eval correctly? I do see in the in the listing that it is showing the "goto hello" as the last command before the stop.

Thanks,
Troy