ActiveRecord for CodeIgniter: Rails-style model interactions

[eluser]KJSDFHASD78FASDF78SA[/eluser]
I wonder why there are so many eval(...) statements in this library? Is it to tackle bugs in some version of PHP5 or something?

For instance:

Code:

eval('return $this->' . $method . ';');

and

Code:

return $this->$method;

or even

Code:

eval('$return = new ' . $this->_class_name . '();');

and

Code:

$return = new $this->_class_name();

work the same, while eval version is somewhat slower and less readable?

Am I missing something?