diff --git a/language/eval/eval.factor b/language/eval/eval.factor
index fed5d458c2..0efa8bd5eb 100644
--- a/language/eval/eval.factor
+++ b/language/eval/eval.factor
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Slava Pestov.
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
-USING: splitting parser parser.notes compiler.units kernel
-namespaces debugger io.streams.string fry combinators
-effects.parser continuations ;
+USING: combinators compiler.units continuations debugger
+effects.parser io.streams.string kernel kernel.private multiline
+namespaces parser parser.notes sequences splitting ;
 IN: eval
 
 : parse-string ( str -- quot )
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ IN: eval
 
 SYNTAX: \ eval( \ eval parse-call-paren ;
 
+SYNTAX: \ eval[[
+    "]]" parse-multiline-string
+    '[ get-datastack _ parse-string with-datastack set-datastack ] append! ;
+
 : (eval>string) ( str -- output )
     [
         parser-quiet? on