Clojure: Eval-ing a String in Clojure

I recently needed to eval a string into Clojure and found it was easy, but it wasn't accomplished in the way I expected. My recent experience with eval was in Ruby, so I naturally reached for Clojure's eval function. I quickly found that Clojure's eval was not what I was looking for, well, not exactly what I was looking for.(eval "(+ 1 1)") "(+ 1 1)"This quick trip to the REPL reminded me of the l