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Christopher Unkel writes:
> > Use eval(), as Andy pointed out.
> 
> Using eval() for this allows the supposed "literal" to do things like 
> call verbs, built-ins, etc., no matter how it is passed into eval.

True, but minor in my experience.  Anyhow, the lack of something like
`fromliteral()' is not a bug and it's not a five-minute feature add, so I won't
be adding it.  At the risk of sounding like a broken record, maybe the next
maintainer...

	Pavel