{"issue":{"created_at":"2011-11-23T04:47:40Z","state":"open","updated_at":"2011-11-23T04:52:25Z","comments":1,"user":{"gravatar_id":"e7f4aa3d1acdfa35716be4eaad9c07a8","id":862118,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/twhaples","login":"twhaples","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e7f4aa3d1acdfa35716be4eaad9c07a8?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"body":"It is a code smell to use programming language constructs to evaluate strings as code, especially where other metaprogramming facilities are readily available. Side effects include, but are not limited to, damaging syntax highlighting and a variety of code inspection / debugging tools.\r\n\r\nIn general, the string_to_proc method scares me and seems like fundamentally a bad idea.","assignee":null,"labels":[],"id":2326550,"number":5,"pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_url":null},"title":"string_to_proc may be a code smell","closed_at":null,"html_url":"https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/issues/5","milestone":null,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raganwald/homoiconic/issues/5"},"action":"created","comment":{"created_at":"2011-11-23T04:52:25Z","updated_at":"2011-11-23T04:52:25Z","user":{"gravatar_id":"6944576a4252ea5303f0b978f8604a30","id":17715,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/raganwald","login":"raganwald","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6944576a4252ea5303f0b978f8604a30?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"body":"String to proc is a language smell... Better metaprogramming facilties actually aren't available to replace its function.","id":2845012,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raganwald/homoiconic/issues/comments/2845012"}}