in some languages you can evaluate the contents of a string. e.g. in python:
# (this is very useful with IRC bots)
exec("def x(v):\n print('hello world')\n if v:\n print('bye world')\nx(False)\nx(True)")
# hello world
# hello world
# bye world
rust can't, so I'd like eval to do it for me:
<Soni> eval: --string "\"foo\\\n bar\""
[eval] "foobar"