How evil is eval?

@seven - I think the reason for the article was to demonstrate that eval is sometimes necessary - the proof is that even Douglas Crockford himself uses it in his parse JSON method, as do JQuery and Prototype frameworks - and he shows us the examples. I was pretty impressed

I would say the second commenter on the blog gets it:<p>… So basically – if you think you have to use eval there's probably another (more correct) way of doing it. (Rasmus Fløe)

Wonderful article. Made me think, anyway.