msandoval/perl-DBR — comment on commit 4ae46f4952fb7a3eb63328056c08e05a85971d3e
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By dnorman:

Certainly it should have better verification of fields, and a proper understanding of any relationships being traversed... that said, eval-ing a block into existence is a surprisingly efficient way to do things. The next most efficient way would be to use closures. Depending on the circumstance, That can be 10x less efficient from a CPU standpoint.