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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2019-02-15 12:58:43 +0200
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@@ -30143,6 +30143,12 @@ Evaluate @var{awk statements} in the context of the running program.
You can do anything that an @command{awk} program would do: assign
values to variables, call functions, and so on.
+@quotation NOTE
+Do to implementation constraintss, using @code{eval} to call a
+user-defined function that returns a value does not work, generating
+an error message. We hope to one day remove this constraint.
+@end quotation
+
@item @code{eval} @var{param}, @dots{}
@itemx @var{awk statements}
@itemx @code{end}