[chrisseaton]

Yeah I get it's problematic.

But if you're going to start cutting out the dynamic features, and those you don't think aren't desirable, then why are you challenging yourself to write a compiler language for a dynamic language in the first place? You could cut out all these troublesome features if you just picked a static language.

[coldtea]

Because you don't need eval to do hugely interesting things in dynamic languages.

Heck, you don't even particularly need reflection, but eval even less so.

[lispm]

One of the reasons is that a class of deployed programs might not need EVAL at all or that it is also not allowed to have EVAL for some reasons.

[justbaker]

I don't think using eval is the main problem he's trying to solve. Eval isn't really a good example of "dynamic programming done right". You don't even need eval to metaprogram in JS.