1. Nategate, Computer fixed, and "value ()" function

Hello everyone,
Since the Nategate scandal it seems that everyone has been a little
ticked off, so I thought I would brighten everyone's mood with some good
news!  But first I want to share my cleverness at avoiding his
snake-pit.
    First of all when I read his mail I noticed that he said his friend
wrote the program... a little bell went off in my head *ding*ding*ding*
...where have I heard something like that before... hmmm.  Didn't he
blame the Nazigate scandal on a friend? hmmm.

Analysis:    Nate's says his friends do bad things
Conclusion:  Nate blames bad things on friends or has bad friends
Action:      Be wary of Nate when he mentions his friends.

So I decided to wait until someone else had tried SNAKE.EXE to make sure
it was safe.  I didn't really think anything would come of it but I
don't like to take unnecesary risks.

I thought it was strange that his excuse included a prommise never to
use Euphoria again.. as if that would appeal to the LIST.  It's not like
Euphoria was to blame in making the trojan snake.  The least I would ask
of him is to cease all WAN activity for at least 4 years.

OK, now for the good news.  I got my home computer fixed!  It wasn't
really broken but it locked up and rebooted alot randomly.  Taking a
hint from a friend I decided to check if my cpu fan was running.  IT
WASN'T! I finally got it turning alittle but not very well.  My brother
said that the bearrings were bad... do CPU fans have bearings? My dad
finally fixed it with some sewwing machine oil.  It spins like a top
(better infact) now.  How is this good news to you?  Well, if you are
experiencing random lockups and reboots check to make sure your CPU is
being cooled propperly. Yes, turn on your comp. with the cover *OFF*
*Gasp*  Clean out the dust and make sure the little fan is spinning
fast.

OK, now for some Euphoria content:
    shouldn't  value ("2 * 2") equal 4?
    instead it returns 2
Is there a way to do this (use math and logical operators from
    a user inputed string?)
Could this be added to the next version of Euphoria?
I looked at the value function in get.e and I couldn't even
    figure out how it works.

Sincerely,
Lewis Townsend
LewisArt

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2. Re: Nategate, Computer fixed, and "value ()" function

I know that JavaScript has an eval() function. If you specify eval("2 *
2"), eval() will return 4. BASIC doesn't have this either.
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