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On Mar 5, 10:45 am, "Juanma Barranquero" <lek...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (eval (read "(+ 2 3)"))  =>  5
>
>              Juanma

Thank you so much! I spent a lot of time with the Emacs Lisp Reference
manual and the builtin documentation yesterday but I completeley
missed "read".