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I've written this helper function:

(defun bind-string-match (regexp string &optional start)
  (let ((ret (string-match regexp string start)))
	(when ret
	  (catch 'end
		(dolist (i (number-sequence 1 10))
		  (let ((match (match-string i string)))
			(if match
				(eval `(setq ,(intern (concat "$" (number-to-string i))) ,match))
				(throw 'end t))))))
	ret))

so that I can access the match groups with $1.. instead of (match-
string 1 string).
Is there any recommendation against this type of functions? Other than
polluting the global namespace?
Also, can one rewrite it without the `eval'?

TIA,
weber

PS: I'm not a Perl programmer!